Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press : selected writings by Dick Higgins /

There are few art-world figures as influential, and as little known, as Dick Higgins (1938-98), cofounder of Fluxus, 'polyartist,' poet, scholar, theorist, composer, performer and, not least, the publisher of the legendary Something Else Press. In 1965, he restored the term 'intermedi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998 (Author)
Other Authors: Clay, Steven, 1951- (Editor), Friedman, Ken, 1949- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Catskill, New York : Siglio, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Steve Clay
  • Thinking about Dick Higgins / Ken Friedman
  • I. Fluxus, happenings, intermedia. Intermedia ; Games of art ; Intending ; Postface (excerpt) ; Postscript to Postface: Fifteen years later ; Fluxus: Theory and reception
  • II. The Something Else Press. A Something Else manifesto ; What to look for in a book--physically & catalogue 1965-66 ; Two sides of a coin: Fluxus and the Something Else Press ; The Something Else Press: Notes for a history to be written some day ; Letter to Ray Johnson ; A Something Else Press checklist
  • III. The Constant dialectic. Some poetry intermedia ; Five traditions of art history, an essay ; An exemplativist manifesto ; The strategy of each of my books ; A book ; Letter to Steve McCaffery
  • IV. Pattern poetry, visual poetry, sound poetry. A short history of pattern poetry ; The strategy of visual poetry: Three aspects ; Points toward a taxonomy of sound poetry ; The Golem in the text
  • Eleven snapshots of Dick Higgins / Hannah Higgins.