Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998
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notably, Higgins founded Something Else Press (1963-1974), operated the Something Else Gallery (1966-1969) and founded Unpublished Editions (Printed Editions) in 1972.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
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A Dialectic Of Centuries 2nd Edition / Higgins, Dick ; Acconci V ; Klintberg B ; Arp H ; Ashbery J ; Ay-O ; Ball H ; Barthes R ; Beckett S ; Bense M ; Brecht G ; Bremer C ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Chopin H ; Corner P ; Creeley R ; cummings ee ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Duchamp M ; Elmslie K ; Ernst M ; Filliou R ; Finlay IH ; Flynt H ; Gaul W ; Gillespie AL ; Glass P ; Gomringer E ; Gysin B ; Hanson A ; Hausmann R ; Heartfeld J ; Heidsieck B ; Herman J ; Herbert G ; Higgins D ; Ionesco E ; Ives N ; Jacob M ; Jarry A ; Johnson R ; Joyce J ; Kaprow A ; Knowles A ; Klein Y ; Kosugi T ; Lamantia P ; Lax R ; levy da ; Lebel JJ ; Lichtenstein R ; LeWitt S ; Lissitzky E ; Maciunas G ; MacLow J ; Mallarme S ; Mayakovsky V ; McLuhan M ; Mayer HJ ; Moholy-Nagy L ; Mon F ; Morgenstern C ; Niikuni S ; Ono Y ; Paik NJ ; Patterson B ; Phillips MJ ; Pignatari D ; Ponge F ; Pound E ; Rauschenberg R ; Reich S ; Rimbaud A ; Roth D ; Rothenberg J ; Ruhm G ; Saroyan A ; Schmit T ; Schwitters K ; Shiomi C ; Smithson R ; Solt ME ; Spoerri D ; Stein G ; Stockhausen K ; Topor R ; Vostell W ; Warhol A ; Watts B ; Williams E ; Noel A ; Williams J ; Wittgenstein L ; Wolff C ; Yeats W ; Young L., 1978
The chapters consist of the following: 1). The post-cognitive era: looking for the sense in it all. 2). Five traditions of art history. 3). Intermedia. 4). Some poetry intermedia. 5). Games of art. 6). Exemplative works of art. 7). Intending. 8). Against movements. 9). Boredom and danger. 9). Structural researches. 10). Seen, heard and understood. 11). Towards an allusive referential. 12). Blank images. 13). Innovation. 14). Inventing our back pages. 15). Styles in cognitivism. 16). A something else manifesto. 17). On doing too much. 18). About Bern Porter and his 'I've left'. 19). Why Gertrude Stein. 20). Getting into Emmett William's poetry. 21). Conceptual forks. 22). A commentary by the poet on 'conceptual forks'. 23). An exemplativist manifesto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.