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GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE – Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master

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Texts and Interviews by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Peter Christopherson & Jon Savage. Edited by Andrew M. McKenzie. Forwards by Andrew McKenzie, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and publisher Carl Abrahamsson.

Brion Gysin (1916–86) was an incredibly influential artist and iconoclast: his development of the “cut-up” technique with William S. Burroughs inspired generations of writers, artists and musicians. Gysin was also a skilled networker and revered migrant: 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. Additional material includes a substantial interview by British journalist Jon Savage. 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.

350 PAGES, PAPERBACK.

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Weight 26 oz
Dimensions 8.5 × 6 × 1 in
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