Scope and Contents This catalogue, edited by Robert A. Sobieszek, curator of photography at LACMA, was issued for an exhibition in 1996. It emphasizes the importance and influence of the painted and poetic works as well as the life of William Burroughs and his collaborator, Brion Gysin. In his preface Sobieszek writes that "Burroughs is far more than a writer of imaginative prose and speculative fiction. His revolutionary literary tactics have led him to margins of activity where genres cease to matter, where the distinctions between words and images blend together, where paragraphs become filmic montage, and where a shotgun blast is the same as a painting. At the core of Burroughs's art is the 'cut-up' technique that he and Brion Gysin developed following the appearance of Naked Lunch. While loosely related to the more traditional techniques of collage, photomontage, and text-image experiments used by modern artists, Burroughs's cut- up strategy inaugurated an essentially postmodern shift in the...

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This is the second edition with reproductions from the original photographs and postage stamp of the first edition published in 1976 (25 copies). The images on the stamps include William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Francoise Janicot, Henri Chopin and Rodney Grey. Each artist stamp or stamps is affixed to a papercard sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The photographs depict postal stamps altered with images of mostly William Burroughs. Other writers and politicians also appear. The stamp collage by Cozette de Charmoy depicts William Burroughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue lists several issues of Revue OU. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Robert and Donna Jackson who sold these Burroughs papers is a friend of the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The authors comment that "In four short but inspired years, Ray Gun has captured the imagination of American alternative culture as a forum for debate and as an arbiter of credibility on music, graphic design, culture, and style." This book presents new design on the cutting edge of typography, writing, photography, illustration, fashion. The compact disc is formatted for the MacIntosh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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All items in this catalogue are 12" vinyl recordings issued in an album jacket -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalog documents the varied accomplishments of Robert Wilson in dance, set design, music, performance, visual art and concrete poetry. The end papers depict concrete poems composed in a calligraphic printed text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Claude Pelieu contributed a cut-up and William Burroughs a rant on heroin incorporating a punctuation poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Claude Pelieu contributed a cut-up. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ian Hamilton Finlay contributed a conventional poem entitled "Orkney Interior." Michel Butor wrote an essay on Baudelaire. An excerpt from "Kadish" by Allen Ginsberg is printed in this issue. Charles Olson contributed a poem with concrete poetic elements, Edwin Morgan wrote an essay on "Jean Genet: A Life and its Legend." "Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs was reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.