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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notably, Higgins founded Something Else Press (1963-1974), operated the Something Else Gallery (1966-1969) and founded Unpublished Editions (Printed Editions) in 1972.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 211 Collections and/or Records:

North. No.3 / Lomholt N ; Banana A ; Groh K ; Higgins D ; Have H., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-32063-33598
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1977

Notations / Cage, John, editor ; Fernbach-Flarscheim C ; Filliou R ; Friedman K ; Hansen A ; Higgins D ; Johnson R ; Kaprow A ; Knizak M ; Knowles A ; MacLow J ; Ono Y ; Roth D ; Rothenberg J ; Ruhm G ; Satie E ; Schneemann C ; Williams E ; Young L., 1969

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Identifier: CC-17214-17572
Scope and Contents

This book illustrates a collection of 255 music manuscripts whose selection by Cage was determined by circumstances. The text was the result of I-Ching chance operations which determined how many words were to be written by or about the 269 composers. Not only the number of words and the author, but the typography too - letter size, intensity and typeface - were all determined by chance operations. Alison Knowles served as co-editor and also designed the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Notations / Cage, John, editor ; Fernbach-Flarscheim C ; Filliou R ; Friedman K ; Hansen A ; Higgins D ; Johnson R ; Kaprow A ; Knizak M ; Knowles A ; MacLow J ; Ono Y ; Roth D ; Rothenberg J ; Ruhm G ; Satie E ; Schneemann C ; Williams E ; Young L ; Andriessen H ; Andriessen L ; Ahhalt I ; Antoniou T ; Filiou R ; Ashley R ; Austin L ; Ay-O ; Babbitt M ; Gaburo K ; Bayle F ; Bedford D ; Behrman D ; Berio L ; Neuhaus M ; Bloch S ; Bodin LG ; Boulez P ; Bowles P ; Brecht G ; Brouwn S ; Brown E ; Brun H ; Bussotti S ; Byrd J ; Cacioppo G ; Cardew C ; Castiglione N ; Castillo G ; Chiari G ; Christiansen H ; Clementi A ; Colgrass M ; Conrad A ; Corner P ; Cowell HD ; Cross L ; Crumb G ; DeLeeuw T ; DePablo L ; Donatoni F ; Drew J ; Echarte P ; Ehrlich T ; Evangelisti F ; Feldman M ; Fine AM ; Haubenstock-Ramati R ; Gandini G ; Ginastera A ; Gladdys A ; Glanville-Hicks P ; Glick J ; Goldstein M ; Halffter C ; Hendricks B ; Hendricks G ; Hidalgo J ; Hiller La ; Hunt J ; Dufrene F ; Jones J ; Kagel M ; Kasemets U ; Kelemen M ; Klintberg B ; Komorous R ; Koepcke A ; Kosugi T ; Kotik P ; Krumm P ; Lieberman F ; Ligeti G ; Llinos N ; Logothetis A ; Lucier A ; Luening O ; Maginnis WJr ; Marchetti W ; Martirano S ; Mathews M ; Maxfield M ; Mestres-Quadreny JM ; Meyer-Denckman G ; Moran R ; Morthenson J ; Mumma G ; Nancarrow C ; Neuhaus M ; Oliveros P ; Otte H ; Paik NJ ; Simonetti GE ; Patterson B ; Pousseur H ; Reich S ; Watts R ; Riedl JA ; Riley T ; Rjewski F ; Rothenberg J ; Ruhm G ; Schaeffer P ; Schmit T ; Schnebel D ; Schneemann C ; Silva C ; Stegall SW ; Stockhausen K ; Tenney J ; Ten-Holt S ; Vostell W ; Tosco VFH ; Tudor D ; Goldstein M ; Vagvione H ; Varese E ; Williams E ; Wolff C ; Xenakis Y., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-17213-17571
Scope and Contents

This book illustrates a collection of 255 music manuscripts whose selection by Cage was determined by circumstances. The text was the result of I-Ching chance operations which determined how many words were to be written by or about the 269 composers. Not only the number of words and the author, but the typography too - letter size, intensity and typeface - were all determined by chance operations. Alison Knowles served as co-editor and also designed the book. The book is missing the dust jacket. it is complementary to another book held by the Sackner Archive of experimental music scores, "Spartito Preso" (1980) that emphasizes Italian composers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Nowoczesnosc od czasu postmodernizmu, 2000

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Identifier: CC-35764-37521
Scope and Contents

The book was edited by Piotr Rypson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

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