Background
Higgins, Dick was born on March 15, 1938 in Cambridge, England. Came to the United States, 1939. Son of Carter Chapin and Katharine (Bigelow) Higgins.
(A compilation of concepts by architectural theorists, inc...)
A compilation of concepts by architectural theorists, including (among others) Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann, Erich Buchholz, Buckminster Fuller, Claes Oldenburg, Gerhard Ruhm, and Dennis Oppenheim.
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(Pattern poetry--poetry from before 1900 that fuses litera...)
Pattern poetry--poetry from before 1900 that fuses literature and visual art--has existed since the times of ancient Crete and Egypt. Less well known than modern visual poetry, pattern poetry has been produced in most European and American literatures, and, as close analogues, in many oriental literatures. This book tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting and classifying more than 2,000 works. Illustrations of each major genre of pattern poem are included. The book also explores related forms, such as graphic music notations, shaped prose, sound poetry, and poetic labyrinths, to name a few. A glossary, essays by two world authorities on the oriental analogues to the pattern poem, and the first full bibliography on pattern poetry complete the work. With this book, Dick Higgins has provided an indispensable tool for opening up the area of pattern poetry to the scholar and the lay reader alike, bringing order to what has been an obscure and confusing area, and delighting the eye and mind by casting light on these forgotten treasures.
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( Written for the lay reader as well as for academic lite...)
Written for the lay reader as well as for academic literary theorists, this book bridges the gulf between the artistic avant-garde in music, visual arts, and experimental literature and the general public. Higgins delves into multiple areas, but here is an example of one kind of poem he works with: those pieces that move like this those pieces i say are snowflakes i say those pieces that move like this those pieces Along with many other artistsJohn Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jackson Mac Low come to mindDick Higgins has investigated and invented a variety of genres and forms, working especially in intermedia, the fusion of two or more discrete media. His poetics travel some distance from the poetry of the past. Here he uses the fusion of the receiver’s” and the artist’s horizons, their knowledge, feelings, experiences, and imaginings to provide a vivid account of artistic experimentation over the last thirty years.
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(Poems Plain and Fancy is a reissue of a collection of poe...)
Poems Plain and Fancy is a reissue of a collection of poems, mostly from the 1970s, of visual poems, pattern poems, performance pieces, and verbo-cerebro games and exercises, from the legendary avant-garde poet, musician, visual artist and Fluxus provocateur.
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("After a tsunami / can you hoe up the bones? / can a kang...)
"After a tsunami / can you hoe up the bones? / can a kangaroo be infinite/ / can an outlaw be charted/" asks a censor in Two-Reelers, Scene Two of Buster Keaton Enters Into Paradise. Dick Higgins makes a metaphysics out of spoken language, a turning of language against itself. With two friends he played eleven scoreless games of Scrabble, using the lists of words formed to write the play's eleven scenes. The players began each game with "Buster Keaton" spelled out in the center of the board. The play's dream-like speeches and stage directions refract Buster Keaton's film plots showing an outsider pasing through phases of rejection and desire until the qualities which make him an outsider allow him to triumph in the end. "Is there a toy for Buster? / there was a fire of toys / at the gazebo / where he had purred. / in the movies?" As Keaton said, "Think slow, act fast."
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Higgins, Dick was born on March 15, 1938 in Cambridge, England. Came to the United States, 1939. Son of Carter Chapin and Katharine (Bigelow) Higgins.
Student, Yale University, 1957; Bachelor of Science in English, Columbia University, 1960; postgraduate, Manhattan School Printing, 1960-1961; Master of Arts in English, New York University, 1977; studied with John Cage and Henry Cowell, 1958-1959.
Co-founder, Happenings (Theater) movement, New York City, 1958;
co-founder, Fluxus movement, New York City, 1961;
founder, Something Else Press, New York City, 1963-1973;
originator concept, developer, (visual, music and literature publications) Intermedia, 1965;
founder, operator, Unpublished Edits., West Glover, Vermont, 1972-1985 (renamed Printed Editions, 1978, in operation until 1986). Operator Something Else Gallery, 1966-1969. Teacher California Institute Arts, 1970-1971.
Member literature panel New York State Council on Arts, 1979-1981. Research associate in visual arts, State University of New York-Purchase, 1983-1989. Visiting Clark professor in art Williams College, fall 1987, research associate in history of art, since 1989.
Teacher Salzburg (Austria) Sommerakademic, 1973, Lund (Sweden) U., 1997.
(Poems Plain and Fancy is a reissue of a collection of poe...)
( Written for the lay reader as well as for academic lite...)
(A compilation of concepts by architectural theorists, inc...)
("After a tsunami / can you hoe up the bones? / can a kang...)
(Pattern poetry--poetry from before 1900 that fuses litera...)
( BACK IN PRINT!!! Modernism Since Postmodernism: Essays ...)
(Book by Higgins, Dick)
(Book by Higgins, Dick)
(illus Ken Friedman)
Married Alison Knowles, May 31, 1960 (divorced 1970). Children: Hannah and Jessica (twins). Married Alison Knowles, 1984.