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Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998

LC control no.n 80004369
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LC classificationPS3558.I36
Personal name headingHiggins, Dick, 1938-1998
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Variant(s)Higgins, Richard C. (Richard Carter), 1938-1998
Higgins, Richard Carter, 1938-1998
See alsoFounder: Something Else Press
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1938-03-15
Death date1998-10-25
Place of birthCambridge (England)
Place of deathQuébec (Québec)
Field of activityArt Poetry Computer art
AffiliationFluxus (Group of artists)
Columbia University
Profession or occupationArtists Composers
Found inJefferson's birthday, 1964.
Twenty-six mountains for viewing the sunset from, 1981: t.p. (Dick Higgins) cover, p. 2 (Richard C. Higgins)
N.Y. times, Oct. 31, 1998 (Dick Higgins; writer, poet, artist, composer, publisher; b. 1938; d. Oct. 25 at age 60 in Quebec City; lived in New York City and Barrytown, N.Y.)
Info. from 678 field, 2014-02-11 (b. 3/15/38)
Higgins, Dick. A book about love & war & death. Canto one, 2007: Biographical information (born March 15th, 1938 at Cambridge, England; raised at Worcester, Massachusetts; Putney, Vermont; and Concord, New Hampshire; studied composition with John Cage and Henry Cowell; graduated Columbia in 1960 with BS in English; enrolled in Manhattan School of Printing, from which he graduated in 1961; married May 31, 1960 to Alison Knowles)
Wikipedia, January 13, 2022: Dick Higgins (Dick Higgins (1938--1998) was an American artist, composer, art theorist, poet, publisher, printmaker, and a co-founder of the Fluxus international artistic movement (and community); Inspired by John Cage, Higgins was an early pioneer of electronic correspondence; born in Cambridge, England in 1938; Higgins died of a heart attack after a performance in Quebec, Canada; Higgins and Alison Knowles took part in the Wiesbaden, Germany Fluxus festival in 1962, that marked the founding of Fluxus activity. He founded Something Else Press in 1963, which published many important texts including Gertrude Stein, Bern Porter, Marshall McLuhan, Cage, Merce Cunningham, Cage's teacher Henry Cowell, as well as his contemporaries such as artists Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Claes Oldenburg and Ray Johnson as well as leading Fluxus members La Monte Young, George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, Eric Andersen, Ken Friedman, Ben Patterson, and others. The Something Else Press series of "Great Bear Pamphlets," documented the earliest Fluxus performances; He was an early and ardent proponent and user of computers as a tool for art making, dating back to the mid-1960s, when Alison Knowles and he created the first computer generated literary texts)
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