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notably, Higgins founded Something Else Press (1963-1974), operated the Something Else Gallery (1966-1969) and founded Unpublished Editions (Printed Editions) in 1972.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

Reading & the Arts of the Book / Edelstein, J. Melvin, editor ; Edelstein JM ; Hendrix L ; Anninger A ; Darnton R ; Higgins D ; Kaldewey G ; Spitz E ; Mitchell B ; Hamady W ; Hubert RR ; Nannucci M ; Spector B ; Wilson M ; Cutts S ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Godine D ; Gass W ; Castleberry M., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-13473-13775
Scope and Contents

Consists of the hand-outs given to all the participants attending this conference. Marvin Sackner delivered a paper, "The Collector as a Performer" and Ruth Sackner delivered a paper, "The Collector as Mother." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Reading Writing Interfaces: from the digital to the bookbound / Emerson, Lori ; Houedard DS ; Lloyd A ; McLuhan M ; Higgins D ; Williams E ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Pignatari D ; Olson C ; Solt ME ; Garnier P ; Johnson R ; McCaffery S ; Zurbrugg N ; bissett b ; Duguay R ; Scobie S ; Dickenson E ; Sackner MA., 2014

 Item
Identifier: CC-59602-10002680
Scope and Contents The Sackner Archive lent Houedard typewriter poems for reproduction in this book.AMAZON.COM: "Lori Emerson examines how interfaces"”from today's multitouch devices to yesterday's desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson's self-bound fascicle volumes"”mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries.Reading the means of production as well as the creative works they produce, Emerson demonstrates that technologies are more than mere tools and that the interface is not a neutral border between writer and machine but is in fact a collaborative creative space. Reading Writing Interfaces begins with digital literature's defiance of the alleged invisibility of ubiquitous computing and multitouch in the early twenty-first century and then looks back at the ideology of the user-friendly graphical user...
Dates: 2014

recorthings: bodies electric: arches (1981); requiem for wagner the criminal mayor (1961-1962). No.5 / Dick Higgins., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-49145-70185
Scope and Contents

Stored in box containing tape cassette periodicals of Linebreak, Recorthings and Tellus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Reflection Press / Leiber, Steven ; Albrecht d ; Vostell W ; Friedman K ; Higgins D ; Hausmann R ; Ben ; Hendricks J ; Pezold F ; Tot E ; Furnival J ; Knizak M ; Beuys J ; Herzfelde W ; Cage J ; Moorman C ; Cremer S ; Below P., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31710-33220
Scope and Contents

This is a catalogue of the complete works of Reflection Press founded and owned by Albrecht d. It has two page sizes that are interleaved thereby accounting for its unconventional shape. One size page is 28 x 10.8 cm, the other 21.1 x 21.6 cm. Leiber presents the total collection for sale as well as selected items. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Robert Filliou / Art Base ; Brecht G ; Spoerri D ; Higgins D ; Sandberg W., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37732-39607
Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists publications of Filliou as well as individual and group exhibitions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Scenes Forgotten and Otherwise Remembered / Higgins, Dick., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30765-32211
Scope and Contents

Written between 1981 and 1983 in Berlin and Barrytown, New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Self Portrait, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-42087-44088
Scope and Contents

The text begins, "OMBWHNW ($5.95) is enigmatic like the title. It's 'bound like a prayer book.'" The book that it cites is Foew&ombwhnw published by Something Else Press in 1969. It is not known whether this print was ever editioned or the size of the edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Small Drawings / Friedman, Ken ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Higgins D ; Robson E ; Thomas DM., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-11652-11869
Scope and Contents

Press release (loose sheet) mentions that Friedman's work is held by the Sackners. The drawings were made for Higgins' "The Epickall Quest of the Brothers Dichtung and other Outrages." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Soldes Fin De Serie / Dana, Llys; Pelieu C; Chopin H; Criel G; Higgins D; Blaine J; Ben., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-55251-9999011
Scope and Contents

These collages were made from artists/poets' correspondence to Llys Dana. They are captioned from cut newsprint letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography / Frank, Peter ; Higgins D ; Johnson R ; Hansen A ; Knowles A ; Filliou R ; Williams E ; Brecht G ; Gomringer E ; Roth D ; Cage J ; Robson E ; Finlay IH ; Porter B ; MacLow J ; Finch P ; Giorno J ; Gysin B ; Antin D., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-11427-11643
Scope and Contents

There were 500 hard back cover copies and 750 sof back covers printed. Frank mentions that Dick Higgins destroyed most of the copies of the American run of Peter Finch's " Typewriter Poems" because he had not been informed that the anthology was entirely British. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Something Else Press / Higgins, Dick., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09191-9372
Scope and Contents

This exhibition consisted of all the Something Else Press publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Spokesheards / Braman, Sandra; Dutton, Paul; Higgins D., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-30675-32117
Scope and Contents

This book reproduces a postcard correspondence in poetry between Braman and Dutton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983