Gysin
Proper noun
Meaning
Gysin
A surname.
Anagrams
Examples
I Am the Artist when I am Open. When I am closed I am Brion Gysin.
After the publication of Naked Lunch, a book whose creation was to a certain extent the result of a series of contingencies, Burroughs was exposed to Brion Gysin 's cut-up technique at the Beat Hotel in Paris in October 1959.
After World War II After serving in the U.S. army during World War II, Gysin published a biography of Josiah "Uncle Tom" Henson titled, To Master, a Long Goodnight: The History of Slavery in Canada (1946).
A monograph on Gysin was published in 2003 by Thames and Hudson.
At the Beat Hotel Burroughs discovered "a port of entry" into Gysin's canvases: "I don't think I had ever seen painting until I saw the painting of Brion Gysin."
Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader.