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ID: 500089445 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500089445			Record Type: Person

Gysin, Brion (American painter and writer, 1916-1986)

Note: American painter and writer of English birth. As a youth he spent time in Kansas City, MO, and Edmonton, Alberta, and briefly attended school in England before studying painting at the Sorbonne in Paris (1933–5). In 1934 his drawings were to have been exhibited at the Galerie aux Quatre Chemins in Paris alongside works by Dadaists and Surrealists, but they were removed by Paul Eluard on André Breton’s orders. He later lived in New York City, Tangier, and Paris, where he spent the rest of his life. He collaborated with William S. Burroughs on books, and together they invented the 'cut-up' technique. His paintings involved a brushed calligraphic stroke, and he notably invented the 'Dreamachine' a device intended to create stroboscopic optical effects.

Names:
	Gysin, Brion (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Gysin, Brion (Dutch-P,NA)
	Brion Gysin (V,display)
	גיסין, ברייון (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	British (modern)
	Canadian
	English
	French

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	author
	poet
	writer
	sculptor
	media artist
	cinematographer
	photographer

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Taplow (Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place) Died: Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

collaborated with ....	Burroughs, William S.
................................	(American writer and mixed-media artist, 1914-1997) [500053989]

collaborated with ....	Chopin, Henri
................................	(French poet, collagist and sound artist, 1922-2008) [500127821]

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Biographies:


	(American painter and writer, 1916-1986) ..... [VP Preferred] (American painter, author, b.1916) ..... [BHA] (American painter, 1916-1986) ..... [Grove Art] (artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections] (artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC] (American artist, 1916-1986) ..... [MoMA] (English sculptor, 1916-1986) ..... [IMJ] (English media artist, 1916-1986) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

גיסין, ברייון ........	[IMJ]
..........................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Brion Gysin ........	[GRISC, MoMA, VP]
........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Gysin, Brion ........	[BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred]
..........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..........................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
..........................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..........................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 239491


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Grove Art Online (2008-)

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