Nothing Is True-Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin

Description: Nothing Is True-Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin Product Overview The multimedia artist, poet and novelist Brion Gysin may be the most influential cultural figure of the twentieth century that most people have never heard of.Gysin (1916-1986) was an Englishborn, Canadianraised, naturalized American of Swiss descent, who lived most of his life in Morocco and France. He went everywhere when the going was good. He dabbled with surrealism in Paris in the 1930s, lived in the "interzone" of Tangier in the 1950s and traveled the Algerian Sahara with Sheltering Sky author Paul Bowles before moving into the legendary Beat Hotel in Paris.Gysin's ideas influenced generations of artists, musicians and writers, among them David Bowie, Keith Haring, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Genesis POrridge, John Giorno and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. None was touched more profoundly than William S. Burroughs, who said admiringly of Gysin: "There was something dangerous about what he was doing."It was Gysin who introduced the Rolling Stones to the exotica of Morocco and took Stones' guitarist Brian Jones to Jajouka where he recorded the tribal musicians performing the Pipes of Pan. It was Gysin who provided the hashish fudge recipe published in Alice B. Toklas' cookbook, promising "ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes." It was Gysin who introduced Burroughs to an automatic writing method called the cutup, a literary progenitor to sampling. And it was Gysin who developed--with Ian Sommerville, the Dream Machine--a device that allowed people, with the flick of a switch, to access altered states of consciousness without drugs.Working with the authorization of Gysin's literary executor, William S. Burroughs, John Geiger has produced the firstever biography of the painter, poet, piper Brion Gysin. Read more Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Disinformation Books; First Edition (June 1, 2005) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932857125 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 22 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.035 ounces Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches Best Sellers Rank: #1,102,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2,029 in Biographies of Artists, Architects & Photographers (Books) #2,029 in Biographies of Artists, Architects & Photographers (Books) Customer Reviews: 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 16 ratings We have been selling used books since 2012, and we've learned that the most important thing is doing good business. Honesty is our policy. Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.

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