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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notably, Higgins founded Something Else Press (1963-1974), operated the Something Else Gallery (1966-1969) and founded Unpublished Editions (Printed Editions) in 1972.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 214 Collections and/or Records:

Artists' Books, Audio, Graphics, Multiples, Publications & Video / Volatile ; Antin E ; Bennett JM ; Higgins D ; Johnson R ; Ono Y ; Osborn K ; Porter B ; Rosenthal R ; Roth D ; Smith EK ; Sprinkle A ; Cage J., 1992

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Identifier: CC-00827-846
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Association of Little Presses Newsletter. Mar-May / Bob Cobbing, editor ; Higgins D., 1981

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Identifier: CC-31338-32814
Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Bio/Bibliography / Higgins, Dick., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09299-9482
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Book As Artwork 1960/1972 / Celant, Germano ; Higgins D ; Oldenburg C ; Roth D ; Ruscha E ; Johnson R ; Kaprow A ; Knowles A ; Kosuth J ; Baruchello GF ; Brecht G ; Williams E ; Phillips T., 1972

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Identifier: CC-19822-20209
Scope and Contents This publication was produced as a reference for an exhibition on artist books held at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery. In an introductory essay, Celant analyzes the artist book through the movements of conceptual art, happenings, arte povera, minimal art, and lays particular emphasis on the bookworks of Joseph Kosuth. 6 Decades Books: "Book as Artwork 1960/1972 was the first catalogue devoted to the then new medium of the artist's book and it remains a canonical reference (though one that, due to its scarcity, is not as well known as it should be). This publication started as an article and a list of about 80 artists' books which appeared in 1970 in the first issue of the Italian magazine Arte. Not long after it was translated and published in Interfunktionen. Then in 1972 the Nigel Greenwood Gallery in London mounted an exhibition of artists' books and issued a catalogue with an updated text by Celant and a greatly expanded bibliography (now nearly 300 titles) jointly compiled by...
Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

Books from Maine / Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance ; Porter B ; Beltrametti F ; Higgins D., 1981

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Identifier: CC-05847-5957
Scope and Contents

This edition of the publication is dedicated to Bern Porter and includes a listing of books written by and illustrated by him as well as a book of photographs by S. Wells, "Bug: Bern Porter in New York," and Porter's film and video "Earum Magnus," which was directed by D. Higgins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Borborigmi. No.1 / Bell M ; Higgins D ; Williams E., 1970

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Identifier: CC-21934-22346
Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Breakthrough Fictioneers - An Anthology, 1973

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Identifier: CC-54074-57092
Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Breakthrough Fictioneers - An Anthology / Kostelanetz, Richard, editor ; Burroughs WS ; Ballard J ; Furnival J ; Higgins D ; Lax R ; MacLow J ; Morgan E ; Phillips T ; Roth D ; Williams E ; Acconci V ; Gerz J ; Graham D ; Baldessari J ; Ahern T ; Antin E ; Berner J ; bissett b ; Bory JF ; Burke K ; Castillejo JL ; Chambers G ; Cirne M ; Clavin H ; Cory JJ ; Coolidge C ; DeSa A ; Depew W ; Federman R ; Fox H ; Friedman K ; Furnival J ; Gangemi K ; Garnier P ; Gnazzo A ; Helms H ; Hompson DD ; Huebler D ; Korn H ; Kostelanetz R ; Krauss R ; Kriwet F ; Levendosky C ; McCauley CS ; MacLow J ; McCallion B ; Edson R ; Mohr M ; Mustill N ; O'Gallagher L ; Ockerse T ; Roth D ; Ruhm G ; Schwerner A ; Sondheim A ; Stein G ; Themerson S ; Todorovic M ; Uldaltsova N ; Ulrichs T ; UU D ; Vaughn-James M ; Veitch T ; Zurbrugg N ; Valoch J ; Smithson R ; Wildman E., 1973

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Identifier: CC-54075-527092
Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Bulletin F: The Perfect Bon-Bon We Shall Name Lucy / Lure ; Knizak M ; Brecht G ; Filliou R ; Higgins D ; Kaprow A ; Knowles A ; Lebel JJ ; MacLow J ; Ben ; Ono Y ; Patterson B ; Saito T ; Spoerri D., 1992

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Identifier: CC-07361-7505
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Bulletin No.3: Conceptual Art / Lake Galleries ; King R ; Darboven H ; Duchamp M ; Hansen A ; Higgins D ; Kruger B ; Munari B ; Nash J ; Paolozzi E ; Roth D ; Knizak M ; Sharits P ; Williams E ; Fones R ; Ray M ; Nitsch H ; Penck A ; Picabia F ; Staeck K ; Armleder J ; Beuys J ; Rauschenberg R ; Snow M ; Vostell W., 1994

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Identifier: CC-07502-7646
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Bulletin No.18: Recent Acquisitions 96 / Lake Galleries ; Beuys J ; Duchamp M ; Ernst KS ; Grosz A ; Hendricks G ; Higgins D ; Johns J ; Kosuth J ; Ono Y ; Weiner L ; Williams E ; Chopin H ; Phillips T ; Bayer H ; Manzoni P., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29347-30709
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Buster Keaton Enters into Paradise / Higgins, Dick ; Knowles A ; McHugh B., 1994

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Identifier: CC-09802-9996
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Calling / Kaprow, Allan; Higgins, Dick., 1967

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Identifier: CC-50273-71340
Scope and Contents Dick Higgins comments are printed on the verso of the plywood cover. They read "Calling, a Happening by Allan Kaprow performed in and out of New York in the summer of 1965, is one of the landmarks of the form, and its scenario typifies the poetic rictual syle he has developed. This present graphic representation, however, began as an improvision when Kaprow, playing with a set of rubber stamp letters, stamped out each word of the scenario on a separate index card. I continued the game by assembling the cards on the copyboard of a graphic arts camera and shooting themby adding an element of color play. The resulting object os not, however, a final one in any sense. While the original acenario may be read by starting from bottom to top, right hand column to left hand, on the silver, blue, red, yellow, and, finally, brown sheets, there are other stories which the reader is invited to tell, other games for him to play." Kaprow died at age 78 years in San Diego on April 5, 2006 --...
Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Catalogue Zero / Passages Book Shop ; Beltrametti F ; Friedman K ; Crumb R ; Hamady W ; Higgins D ; Roth D ; Chopin H ; Curtay JP ; DeCampos H ; Diacono M ; Kriwet F ; Ruhm G ; Antin D ; Rothenberg J ; Creeley R ; Butor M ; Finlay IH., 2015

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Identifier: CC-61007-10003792
Scope and Contents

Sharing space with Division Leap. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Celebrating the Life of Dick Higgins 1938-1998 / Higgins, Dick., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31731-33243
Scope and Contents

Annoucement celbrating the memorial in memory of Higgins at the Judson Memorial Church, New York, December 27, 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Collagiste / Mac Low, Jackson ; Laetitia Benat, curator ; Joris P ; Coolidge C ; Higgins D ; Antin D ; Bernstein C ; Johnson R., 2012

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Identifier: CC-54565-990013
Dates: 2012
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

Collected Poems Volume Thirteen: Voice Prints / Cobbing, Bob ; Mottram E ; Higgins D ; Solt ME ; Claire P ; Griffiths B ; Fencott PC ; Metcalfe H., 1993

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Identifier: CC-20537-20934
Scope and Contents

In his introduction, Eric Mottram writes that "Voice Prints is for voice performance, and looking or meditating performance...[The] poem-texts or poem-images continue Bob Cobbings's experimental achievements with many uses of words, word-orders and word designs." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Commentaries on the New Media Arts: Fluxus & Conceptual Art, Artists' Books, Correspondence Art, Audio & Video Art / Morgan, Robert C. ; Higgins D ; Weiner L ; Allen T ; Porter B ; Steinberg S ; Viola B., 1992

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Identifier: CC-06311-6427
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of previously published essays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Computers For The Arts / Higgins, Dick., 1970

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Identifier: CC-36610-38418
Scope and Contents

This book deals with programming in FORTRAN for the arts. A permutation is printed to illustrate the powers of a computer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Concrete Poetry / William Fox, curator ; Kostelanetz R ; Ockerse T ; Adler J ; Higgins D ; Mayer P ; Bennett JM ; Federman R ; Finlay IH ; Houedard DS ; Lax R ; Solt ME ; Williams E ; Cory JJ ; Marcus A ; Sky A ; Pi O., 1977

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Identifier: CC-18477-18849
Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

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