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notably, Higgins founded Something Else Press (1963-1974), operated the Something Else Gallery (1966-1969) and founded Unpublished Editions (Printed Editions) in 1972.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 4 Collections and/or Records:
Art A to Z Part One, 1977
For this book, each artist was asked to contribute one page of autobiography and one page about anything beginning with the same initial letter as his surname. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Buster Keaton Enters into Paradise / Higgins, Dick ; Knowles A ; McHugh B., 1994
Diagramatic texts are based on scrabble board games starting with the name Buster Keaton. Eleven performances derive from the list of words on each board and film clips of Keaton. Nine layouts of the Scrabble game are depicted that have a concrete poetic appearance owing to different choices of type face and weight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
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
No.11 / Art Metropole ; Weiner L ; Andre C ; Broodthaers M ; Carrion U ; Higgins D ; Holzer J ; Kruger B ; Roth D ; Ben ; Barry R ; Burroughs WS ; Curnoe G ; McFadden D ; Fulton H ; Nordman M ; Paik NJ ; Vostell W ; Tremlett D ; Fox T ; Gysin B ; Snow M ; Acconci V ; Agnetti V ; Armleder J ; Atkinson C ; Barry R ; Beuys J ; Boetti A ; Boehmler C ; Bohmler C ; Boyle M ; Brouwn S ; Byars JL ; Cage J ; Corner P ; Curso G ; Costley R ; Finlay IH ; Curnoe G ; Darboven H ; Debord G ; Denes A ; Diacono M ; Duchamp M ; Filliou R ; Fulton H ; Garnet E ; Gerz J ; Graham D ; Haacke H ; Grisi L ; Hausmann R ; Hiller S ; Huelsenbeck R ; Johnson R ; Kawara O ; Knowles A ; Knowles C ; Kosuth J ; Latham J ; Levine L ; LeWitt S ; Long R ; Maciunas G ; MacLennan T ; Martin H ; Brecht G ; McLean B ; Merz M ; Michaux H ; Mields R ; Nannucci M ; Nations O ; Ontani L ; Opalka R ; Oldenburg C ; Paik NJ ; Parmiggiani C ; Pezold F ; Piper A ; Rosler M ; Roth D ; Ruppersberg A ; Ruscha E ; Samaras L ; Siegelaub S ; Snow M ; Sondheim A ; Staeck K ; Stokes T ; Douglas H ; Vazan B ; Wiens R ; Willats S ; Wilson I ; Williams E ; Young L., 1985
The covers and pages of this catalogue were designed by Lawrence Weiner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.