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notably, Higgins founded Something Else Press (1963-1974), operated the Something Else Gallery (1966-1969) and founded Unpublished Editions (Printed Editions) in 1972.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:
Dieter Roth Is Magnificent / Higgins, Dick; Roth D., 1978
On gold colored, papercard stock, Higgins has printed the same message, ...is magnificant with four spellings of Roth's name, e.g., dieter roth, diter rot, dieter rot, and diter roth. The card is addresses to Dieter Roth in Iceland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
No.2: Books by Dieter Roth / Zwicker, Tony ; Roth D ; Filliou R ; Brecht G ; Higgins D ; McCaffery S., 2003
San Francisco Earthquake, The. No.4/Sum-Fall / Jan Jacob Herman, editor ; Lebel JJ ; Ginsberg A ; Kostelanetz R ; Ruscha E ; O'Gallagher L ; Sanders E ; Plymell C ; Higgins D ; Bory JF ; Marinetti FT ; Burroughs WS ; Beiles S ; Weissner C ; Herman J ; Solomon C ; Pelieu C., 1968
This issue carries an interview with Jean-Jacque Lebel on the history of Happenings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Paper Snake / Johnson, Ray ; Higgins D ; Fine AM ; Knowles A ; Herms G ; DiPrima D ; Stein G., 1965
In the text printed on the dust jacket by William Wilson, Ray Johnson is described as living "a life that is a continuous revelation of pure and radiant design, the image of that life is art. Since the life itself is designed of coincidences, like a walk taking a line, the aesthetic reciprocal of that life is a Ray Johnson collage. Ray Johnson is not neo-dada or abstract or extract: he is an artist representing the reality of his life; it happens that his life is a collage." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.