Brion Gysin
Poet, Visual Artist
1916 – 1986
Who was Brion Gysin?
Brion Gysin was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique, used by his friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting and drawing, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by the cursive Japanese "grass" script and Arabic script. Burroughs later stated that "Brion Gysin was the only man I ever respected."
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- Born
- Jan 19, 1916
Taplow - Also known as
- Brion Gyson
- Gysin, Brion
- John Clifford Brian Gysin
- Parents
- Nationality
- England
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Sorbonne
- Died
- Jul 13, 1986
Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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