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notably, Higgins founded Something Else Press (1963-1974), operated the Something Else Gallery (1966-1969) and founded Unpublished Editions (Printed Editions) in 1972.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 1 Collection or Record:
Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language / Saiber, Arielle ; Accame V ; Adorno T ; Carroll L ; Drucker J ; Higgins D ; Joyce J ; Perec G ; Pignotti L ; Queneau R ; Severini G ; Williams E., 2005
In the introduction, Saiber describes Bruno as a 16th century polymath who was a philosopher, poet, playwright, mnemonist and magus but at his core an architect of ideas. Saiber further adds that "Many among the educated class familiar with esoteric learning, like Bruno, looked to locate and empower themselves through spacial manipulation and symbloic permutation, such as memory theaters. encyclopedias, kabbalah, natural magic, alchemy, and searches for the 'perfect language.' Bruno's writing indeed contains verbal patterns that signal an unusual sensibility to the shape of of space - whether of the heavens, between people, on a page, or of one's mind." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.