Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master: Text & Interviews by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with Peter Christopherson

Brion Gysen, Genesis Breyer P-,Orridge, Peter Christopherson, Andrew M. McKenzie (ed)

ISBN 10: 9198324365 / ISBN 13: 9789198324365

Published by Trapart Books, 2018

About this Item

Second edition. Cover is lightly worn along edges. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 1143955

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master: Text & Interviews by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with Peter Christopherson
• Publisher: Trapart Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9198324365
• ISBN 13: 9789198324365
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

The iconoclast behind the "cut-up” technique in conversation with two original members of the seminal industrial band Throbbing Gristle

Brion Gysin (1916–86) has been an incredibly influential artist and iconoclast: his development of the “cut-up” technique with William S. Burroughs has inspired generations of writers, artists and musicians. Gysin was also a skilled networker and revered expat: together with his friend Paul Bowles, he more or less constructed the post-beatnik romanticism for life and magic in Morocco, and was also a protagonist in an international gay culture with inspirational reaches in both America and Europe. Not surprisingly, Gysin has become something of a cult figure.

One of the artists he inspired is Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, who collaborated with both Gysin and Burroughs in the 1970s, during his work with Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions. The interviews made by P-Orridge have since become part of a New Wave/Industrial mythos. This volume presents them in their entirety alongside three texts on Gysin by P-Orridge, plus an introduction. This book is an exclusive insight into the mind of a man P-Orridge describes as “a kind of Leonardo da Vinci of the last century,” and a fantastic complement to existing biographies and monographs.

Review

His Name Was Master contains the profound connection of a master and student―the dynamic that is the thread of all artistic lineages leading the past to us here, now. (Nick Bennett The Brooklyn Rail)