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notably, Higgins founded Something Else Press (1963-1974), operated the Something Else Gallery (1966-1969) and founded Unpublished Editions (Printed Editions) in 1972.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
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Great Bear Pamphlet, A: Manifestos. No.8 / Dick Higgins, Emmett Williams, editors ; Ay-O ; Corner P ; Fahlstrom O ; Filliou R ; Giorno J ; Hansen A ; Higgins D ; Kaprow A ; Knowles A ; Paik NJ ; Rothenberg J ; Vostell W ; Watts R ; Williams E., 1966
North. No.3 / Lomholt N ; Banana A ; Groh K ; Higgins D ; Have H., 1977
This periodical is dedicated to news of Scandinavian art and artistic activities with original contributions by Scandinavian artists, interviews and informative articles on artistic theory and history of art. This issue includes reproductions of a correspondence art exhange between Niels Lomholt on the one hand and Anna Banana, Klaus Groh, and Dick Higgins on the other hand. Henrik Have contributed an obituary on Arthur Kopcke who died October 20, 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Word and Beyond, 1982
Richard Morris reported a survey of 65 poet-editors of different schools of poetry and who were asked "the best poets currently writing in the English language." The results included among others Antin, Ashbery, Beckett, Berrigan, Blaser, Bukowski, Bunting, Cage, Codrescu, Coolidge, Corman, Corso, Davey, Dorn, Elmslie, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Giorno, Hirschman, Hollo, Houedard, Ronald Johnson, David Jones, Kryss, Lifshin, McClure, Mac Low, Meltzer, Merrill, Merwin, Meyer, Perchik, Plymell, Raworth, Rothenberg, Simic, Snodgrass, Charles Stein, Swenson, Tarn, Keith Waldrop, Emmet Williams, Jonathan Williams, Zulovsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.