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Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1938 March 15 - 1998 October 25

Biography

Dick Higgins was born in Cambridge, England in 1939 and died in Quebec in 1998. He was a Fluxus artist who studied with John Cage and Henry Cowell (1958-1959), and co-founded Happenings in 1958. He is credited with coining the phrase intermedia to describe his particular approach to artmaking that included (but is not limited to) his visual, musical and literary efforts. He was a theorist, poet, composer, performance artist, printmaker, filmaker, and book publisher. Most notably, Higgins founded Something Else Press (1963-1974), operated the Something Else Gallery (1966-1969) and founded Unpublished Editions (Printed Editions) in 1972.

Nationality

American

Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:

Outsider, The: For Kenneth Patchen. No.4-5 / Lou Webb, Jon Webb, editors ; Patchen K ; levy da ; Johnson R ; MacLow J ; Williams E ; Knowles A ; Kryss TL ; Hollo A ; Antin D ; Higgins D ; Merton T ; Miller B ; Blazek D ; Porter B ; Patchen M ; Meltzer D ; Bukowski C ; Edson R ; Hansen A ; Ginsberg A ; Plymell C ; Perchik S ; Wantling W ; DiPrima D ; Meltzer D ; Ferlinghetti L ; Blazek D ; Miller B ; Bly R ; Dowden G ; Cocteau J., 1968

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Identifier: CC-05254-5357
Scope and Contents

This is the most visually exiting issue of the periodical. It was available in a hard cover and stiff cover edition. The Sackner Archive copy holds the stiff cover version. There is a section that deals with remembrances of Kenneth Patchen by other poets and writers as well as an interview of Patchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Parallel Lives: Artists' Books and Photography / Rice, Shelley; Zelevansky P; Higgins D., 1985

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Identifier: CC-03287-3337
Scope and Contents

Article is adapted from author's presentation at the Artists' Books Conference, Boston 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Pattern Poetry as Paradigm / Higgins, Dick., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08789-8964
Scope and Contents

Poetics Today is published by Duke University Press. In vol.10, no.2 Higgins discusses the roots of pattern poetry and its contemporary influence. The Sackner Archive catalogue is listed as a reference. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Pattern Poetry: Guide To An Unknown Literature, 1987

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Identifier: CC-36435-38228
Scope and Contents Although his inscription alludes to a second edition, this was not meant to be. In this first edition, first printing, Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he descibes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows...
Dates: 1987

Pattern Poetry: Guide To An Unknown Literature / Higgins, Dick ; Simmias of Rhodes ; Maurus H ; Salmonius Macrinus ; Puttenham G ; Lobkowitz J ; Pierius ; Theocritus ; Porphyrii PO ; Caruso L ; Optatian ; Cook G ; Fortunatus V ; Bettini M ; Honthemius J ; Abulafia A ; Rossi N ; Rabelais ; Martin G ; Ferland A ; Geuder J ; Helwig J ; Peuker N ; Frisch J ; Schonenfels S ; Kankel J ; Beaumont J ; Browne W ; Herbert G ; Herrick R ; Puttenham G ; Watson T ; Carroll L ; Bean S ; Taylor E ; Ramirez B ; Gama Lobo E ; Radolinski A ; Susliga W ; Rypson P ; Rothmann B ; Forstenovius P ; Simeon of Polotsk ; Dovhalevskij M ; Haugsdorf P ; Dordjic I ; Peignot C ; Thilo V., 1987

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Identifier: CC-36437-38230
Scope and Contents Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he describes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows below.ABECEDARIAN VERSE: poetry in which the first word of a line, the subject of the line or all the words of the line are...
Dates: 1987

Pattern Poetry: Guide To An Unknown Literature / Higgins, Dick ; Simmias of Rhodes ; Maurus H ; Salmonius Macrinus ; Puttenham G ; Lobkowitz J ; Pierius ; Theocritus ; Porphyrii PO ; Caruso L ; Optatian ; Cook G ; Fortunatus V ; Bettini M ; Honthemius J ; Abulafia A ; Rossi N ; Rabelais ; Martin G ; Ferland A ; Geuder J ; Helwig J ; Peuker N ; Frisch J ; Schonenfels S ; Kankel J ; Beaumont J ; Browne W ; Herbert G ; Herrick R ; Puttenham G ; Watson T ; Carroll L ; Bean S ; Taylor E ; Ramirez B ; Gama Lobo E ; Radolinski A ; Susliga W ; Rypson P ; Rothmann B ; Forstenovius P ; Simeon of Polotsk ; Dovhalevskij M ; Haugsdorf P ; Dordjic I ; Peignot C ; Thilo V., 1987

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Identifier: CC-36439-38232
Scope and Contents Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he describes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows below.ABECEDARIAN VERSE: poetry in which the first word of a line, the subject of the line or all the words of the line are...
Dates: 1987

[Photographs from Saarbrucken Visual Poetry Exhibition] / Trinkewitz, Karel; Higgins D; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Takahashi S; Ruutsalo E; Dencker KP; Schauffelen KB; Trinkewitz K., 1984

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Identifier: CC-31104-32570
Scope and Contents

The Sackners were invited to a televised conference for German TV in which the definitions of visual and concrete poetry were discussed in German that lasted hours with no definitive conclusions. The concluding respondent in the conference, Wolfgang Schmidt, gave a wink to the Sackners and replied to the question "What is Visual Poetry" with I...DON'T....KNOW! The event included an exhibition and poetic performances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Poesies Sonores / Barras, Vincent, editor ; Zurbrugg, Nicholas, editor ; Burt W ; Chopin H ; Claus CF ; Duke JH ; Gysin B ; Heidsieck B ; Higgins D ; Jandl E ; Mann C ; Metail M ; Miccini E ; Ruhm G ; Schnebel D ; Scholz C ; Wendt L ; Zumthor P ; Zurbrugg N ; Zweig E., 1992

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Identifier: CC-27851-28986
Scope and Contents

The book consists of chapters written on the field of Sound Poetry; these include essays and interviews. There are only two typewriter art pieces in this book, both by Henri Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Reading & the Arts of the Book / Edelstein, J. Melvin, editor ; Edelstein JM ; Hendrix L ; Anninger A ; Darnton R ; Higgins D ; Kaldewey G ; Spitz E ; Mitchell B ; Hamady W ; Hubert RR ; Nannucci M ; Spector B ; Wilson M ; Cutts S ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Godine D ; Gass W ; Castleberry M., 1992

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Identifier: CC-13473-13775
Scope and Contents

Consists of the hand-outs given to all the participants attending this conference. Marvin Sackner delivered a paper, "The Collector as a Performer" and Ruth Sackner delivered a paper, "The Collector as Mother." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Reading Writing Interfaces: from the digital to the bookbound / Emerson, Lori ; Houedard DS ; Lloyd A ; McLuhan M ; Higgins D ; Williams E ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Pignatari D ; Olson C ; Solt ME ; Garnier P ; Johnson R ; McCaffery S ; Zurbrugg N ; bissett b ; Duguay R ; Scobie S ; Dickenson E ; Sackner MA., 2014

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Identifier: CC-59602-10002680
Scope and Contents The Sackner Archive lent Houedard typewriter poems for reproduction in this book.AMAZON.COM: "Lori Emerson examines how interfaces"”from today's multitouch devices to yesterday's desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson's self-bound fascicle volumes"”mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries.Reading the means of production as well as the creative works they produce, Emerson demonstrates that technologies are more than mere tools and that the interface is not a neutral border between writer and machine but is in fact a collaborative creative space. Reading Writing Interfaces begins with digital literature's defiance of the alleged invisibility of ubiquitous computing and multitouch in the early twenty-first century and then looks back at the ideology of the user-friendly graphical user...
Dates: 2014

recorthings: bodies electric: arches (1981); requiem for wagner the criminal mayor (1961-1962). No.5 / Dick Higgins., 1983

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Identifier: CC-49145-70185
Scope and Contents

Stored in box containing tape cassette periodicals of Linebreak, Recorthings and Tellus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Reflection Press / Leiber, Steven ; Albrecht d ; Vostell W ; Friedman K ; Higgins D ; Hausmann R ; Ben ; Hendricks J ; Pezold F ; Tot E ; Furnival J ; Knizak M ; Beuys J ; Herzfelde W ; Cage J ; Moorman C ; Cremer S ; Below P., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31710-33220
Scope and Contents

This is a catalogue of the complete works of Reflection Press founded and owned by Albrecht d. It has two page sizes that are interleaved thereby accounting for its unconventional shape. One size page is 28 x 10.8 cm, the other 21.1 x 21.6 cm. Leiber presents the total collection for sale as well as selected items. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998