DickHiggins

Biography
Dick Higgins (1938 Cambridge, England – 1998 Quebec, Canada) was an influential artist, poet, editor, and—more than anything else—a prolific theorist of experimental arts. His inquisitiveness and enthusiasm made him one of the most distinctive personalities of the avant-garde movements. Higgins was an instigator of Happenings and a co-founder of Fluxus, together with George Maciunas, George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, and his wife Allison Knowles. In 1963, Higgins founded Something Else Press, a publishing house responsible for promoting and disseminating the works of highly acclaimed artists and writers of the twentieth century, including Gertrude Stein, Ray Johnson, and Dieter Roth. With the first issue of the Something Else Press Newsletter in 1965, Higgins coined the term “intermedia” as a descriptive stance, a possibility of naming artistic approaches that did not limit their field of operation to a question of artistic media but rather tended to elude established norms and categories. Higgins received a DAAD scholarship in Berlin (1981–82) and a Pollock-Krasner grant (1993). A substantial retrospective was held at the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter (1995) in Høvikodden, Norway. His works can be found in numerous private and public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, and the mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien in Vienna.
Artworks (20)
- Dick Higgins
Hommage to Africa, 1989 - Dick Higgins
Europa - Red (Diaspora), 1988 - Dick Higgins
Graphis #144: Whipeout for Orchestra Graphis #143: Softly, 1967 - Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Various artists
L'immortelle mort du monde, 1967 - Dick Higgins
1961/2/3, 1989-1990 - Dick Higgins, Robert Watts
Fun With Fluxus, 1984, 1987 - Dick Higgins
A Letter to Sarenco, 1977 - Dick Higgins
Untitled, 1995 - Dick Higgins, Robert Watts
Fun With Fluxus, 1984, 1986 - Dick Higgins
Europe - Green (Repopulation), 1988 - Dick Higgins
Europe - Blue (War), 1988 - Dick Higgins
Homage to Villon, 1990 - Philip Corner, Robert Delford Brown, Jean…
On This Stove Many Meals Were Cooked by Francesco…, 1997 - Eric Andersen, Ina Blom, Ken Friedman, Ludwig…
Dress and Photo Performance, 1992 - Dick Higgins
A Letter to Sarenco, 1977 - Ay-O , Eric Andersen, Henning Christiansen,…
Fluxus Virus 1962-1992, 1992 - Dick Higgins
Emmett WIlliam's Ear, 1977 - Dick Higgins
28 Things to Think About, a Manifesto, 1990 - Dick Higgins
Labyrinth, 1989 - Dick Higgins
Florence, 1987