Dick
Higgins
Dick Higgins is a composer, painter, translator and art
theorist. Happenings and Fluxus, Intermedia, Something Else Press,
these are a few of the terms associated with Dick Higgins. He remarks
"I find I never feel quite complete unless I'm doing all the
arts--visual, musical and literary. I guess that's why I developed the
term 'intermedia,' to cover my works that fall conceptually between
these." The founder of Something Else Press he published works by Alan
Kaprow, Gertrude Stein, Marshall McLuhan, John Cage, Merce Cunningham,
Emmett Williams, and Ray Johnson among others. His forty-seven books
include Poems Plain & Fancy (Station Hill Press) and A Book
About Love & War & Death (Something Else). He edited and annotated
Giordano Bruno's On the Composition of Images, Signs & Ideas
(Willis, Locker & Owens) and he is a recent recipient of a grant
from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He has two forthcoming books:
Merle Armitage and the Modern Book (David Godine) and 2001:
Modernism Since Post-Modernism (San Diego State University Press).
Dick Higgins titles available from Left Hand Books:
Buster Keaton Enters Into Paradise
The Journey: eight colored scenes
Other Dick Higgins projects on the web: