Cut-ups, cut-ins, cut-outs : the art of William S. Burroughs /
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Imprint: | Vienna : Kunsthalle Wien ; Nürnberg : Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg GmbH ; [New York : Distribution outside Europe, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., c2012] |
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Description: | 173, [3] p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English German |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9023334 |
Summary: | William S. Burroughs, an icon of the American Beat Generation, admired as a revolutionary and homosexual intellectual, and criticised for his enthusiasm for firearms, established a new form of writing: the cut-up method.Text fragments are intuitively stru |
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Item Description: | Accompanies the exhibition of the same name held June 15-Oct. 21, 2012 at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. With interpretive essays, interviews, and chronology. With numerous color reproductions of manuscripts from the William S. Burroughs papers (1951-1972) at the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. 1961 interview of Burroughs by Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg, from Journal for the Protection of All Beings (San Francisco: City Lights). Transcription of 1997 telephone interview of Burroughs by Lee Ranaldo. Interview of Barry Miles by Colin Fallows. Essays by Synne Genzmer, C. A. Howe, John Savage and Tim Head. With black-and-white photograph by Brion Gysin of Burroughs standing with cigarette before large wooden door, 1959, repeated in book, with five other Gysin photographs of Burroughs, 1959; and with black-and-white photograph by Barry Miles of Burroughs seated at his desk in London, 1972. |
Physical Description: | 173, [3] p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, discography, and filmography. |
ISBN: | 9783869843155 3869843152 |