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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notably, Higgins founded Something Else Press (1963-1974), operated the Something Else Gallery (1966-1969) and founded Unpublished Editions (Printed Editions) in 1972.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 4 Collections and/or Records:

Pattern Poetry: Guide To An Unknown Literature, 1987

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Identifier: CC-36435-38228
Scope and Contents Although his inscription alludes to a second edition, this was not meant to be. In this first edition, first printing, Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he descibes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows...
Dates: 1987

Pattern Poetry: Guide To An Unknown Literature / Higgins, Dick ; Simmias of Rhodes ; Maurus H ; Salmonius Macrinus ; Puttenham G ; Lobkowitz J ; Pierius ; Theocritus ; Porphyrii PO ; Caruso L ; Optatian ; Cook G ; Fortunatus V ; Bettini M ; Honthemius J ; Abulafia A ; Rossi N ; Rabelais ; Martin G ; Ferland A ; Geuder J ; Helwig J ; Peuker N ; Frisch J ; Schonenfels S ; Kankel J ; Beaumont J ; Browne W ; Herbert G ; Herrick R ; Puttenham G ; Watson T ; Carroll L ; Bean S ; Taylor E ; Ramirez B ; Gama Lobo E ; Radolinski A ; Susliga W ; Rypson P ; Rothmann B ; Forstenovius P ; Simeon of Polotsk ; Dovhalevskij M ; Haugsdorf P ; Dordjic I ; Peignot C ; Thilo V., 1987

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Identifier: CC-36437-38230
Scope and Contents Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he describes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows below.ABECEDARIAN VERSE: poetry in which the first word of a line, the subject of the line or all the words of the line are...
Dates: 1987

Pattern Poetry: Guide To An Unknown Literature / Higgins, Dick ; Simmias of Rhodes ; Maurus H ; Salmonius Macrinus ; Puttenham G ; Lobkowitz J ; Pierius ; Theocritus ; Porphyrii PO ; Caruso L ; Optatian ; Cook G ; Fortunatus V ; Bettini M ; Honthemius J ; Abulafia A ; Rossi N ; Rabelais ; Martin G ; Ferland A ; Geuder J ; Helwig J ; Peuker N ; Frisch J ; Schonenfels S ; Kankel J ; Beaumont J ; Browne W ; Herbert G ; Herrick R ; Puttenham G ; Watson T ; Carroll L ; Bean S ; Taylor E ; Ramirez B ; Gama Lobo E ; Radolinski A ; Susliga W ; Rypson P ; Rothmann B ; Forstenovius P ; Simeon of Polotsk ; Dovhalevskij M ; Haugsdorf P ; Dordjic I ; Peignot C ; Thilo V., 1987

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Identifier: CC-36439-38232
Scope and Contents Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he describes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows below.ABECEDARIAN VERSE: poetry in which the first word of a line, the subject of the line or all the words of the line are...
Dates: 1987