DICK HIGGINS
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Poet, essayist, painter, composer, performance artist and a founding member of Fluxus, Dick Higgins was a leading proponent of "Intermedia," which he named. Through his publishing house, Something Else Press, he issued from 1964 to 1973 the Wrst "artist's books," including works by Emmett Williams, Claes Oldenburg, and Merce Cunningham, and reissued six books by Gertrude Stein (notably The Making of Americans) along with Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources. Among Dick Higgins' numerous books are A Book About Love & War & Death, Poems Plain & Fancy, foew&ombwhnw, Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unkown Literature, Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of Intermedia, A Dialectic of Centuries, and Modernism Since Postmodernism. |