Dick Higgins
- Introduction
- 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 using electronic correspondence. Higgins coined the word intermedia to describe his artistic activities, defining it in a 1965 essay by the same name, published in the first number of the Something Else Newsletter. His most notable audio contributions include Danger Music scores and the Intermedia concept to describe the ineffable inter-disciplinary activities that became prevalent in the 1960s.
- Wikidata
- Q1209700
- Introduction
- Higgins was a seminal figure in Happenings, the concrete poetry movement and a co-founder of the Fluxus movement in the early 1960's.
- Nationalities
- American, English, British
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Composer, Writer, Publisher, Poet, Mixed-Media Artist, Painter
- Names
- Dick Higgins, Richard Higgins, Richard Dick Carter Higgins
- Ulan
- 500034921
Exhibitions
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410: Nam June Paik, Instant Zen
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury
Through Feb 6
MoMA
Last chance -
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done
Sep 16, 2018–Feb 3, 2019
MoMA
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Yoko Ono: One Woman Show,
1960–1971 May 17–Sep 7, 2015
MoMA
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There Will Never Be Silence: Scoring John Cage’s
4′33″ Oct 12, 2013–Jun 22, 2014
MoMA
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Dick Higgins has
12 exhibitionsonline.
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Dick Higgins Graphis No. 19 (Act One of Saint Joan at Beaurevoir)_
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Dick Higgins Graphis No. 24 1959
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Dick Higgins Graphis No. 59 1959
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Dick Higgins Graphis No. 27 (Drama for Rubber Stamp and Tragedians)_
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Dick Higgins Graphis No. 82 1960
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Dick Higgins Graphis 89, for a drama 1961
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Philip Corner, Emmett Williams, George Maciunas, Benjamin Patterson, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles Philip Corner's Piano Activities, performed by Philip Corner, George Maciunas, Emmett Williams, Benjamin Patterson, Dick Higgins, and Alison Knowles during Fluxus Internationale Festpiele Neuester Musik, Hörsaal des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, Germany, September 1, 1962 1962
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Philip Corner, George Maciunas, Emmett Williams, Benjamin Patterson, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles Philip Corner's Piano Activities, performed by Philip Corner, George Maciunas, Emmett Williams, Benjamin Patterson, Dick Higgins, and Alison Knowles during Fluxus Internationale Festpiele Neuester Musik, Hörsaal des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, Germany, September 1, 1962 1962
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Philip Corner, Emmett Williams, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Benjamin Patterson Philip Corner's Piano Activities, performed by Philip Corner, George Maciunas, Emmett Williams, Benjamin Patterson, Dick Higgins, and Alison Knowles during Fluxus Internationale Festpiele Neuester Musik, Hörsaal des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, Germany, September 1, 1962 1962
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Philip Corner, George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Emmett Williams, Benjamin Patterson, Alison Knowles Philip Corner's Piano Activities, performed by Philip Corner, George Maciunas, Emmett Williams, Benjamin Patterson, Dick Higgins, and Alison Knowles during Fluxus Internationale Festpiele Neuester Musik, Hörsaal des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, Germany, September 1, 1962 1962
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Dick Higgins Danger Music Number Fifteen 1962
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Dick Higgins Danger Music Number Seventeen 1962
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Dick Higgins Graphis 118 1962
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George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Emmett Williams, George Maciunas, Benjamin Patterson George Maciunas' In Memoriam to Adriano Olivetti, performed during Concert No. 5, Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, September 8, 1962 1962
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Dick Higgins Danger Music No. 24 1962
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Various Artists, George Brecht, Claus Bremer, Earle Brown, Joseph Byrd, John Cage, Anthony Cox, David Degener, Walter De Maria, Ding Dong, Henry Flynt, Simone Forti, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Ray Johnson, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Maxfield, Robert Morris, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Dieter Roth, James Waring, Emmett Williams, Christian Wolff, La Monte Young An Anthology 1962
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Dick Higgins, Wolf Vostell dé-coll/age, no. 2 1962
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Various Artists, Arthus Carlheinz Caspari, Christo, Jed Curtis, Henry Flynt, Dick Higgins, György Sándor Ligeti, Franz Mon, Nam June Paik, Pera, Frank Trowbridge, Jan Voss, Wolf Vostell, Jean-Pierre Wilhelm dé-coll/age, no. 3 1962
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Dick Higgins Graphis No. 2 (or possibly No. 23) c. 1958–59
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Manfred Leve, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Tomas Schmit, Bengt af Klintberg, Arthur Köpcke, Wolf Vostell, George Maciunas, Alison Knowles, Daniel Spoerri Dick Higgins' Graphis No. 118 (1962), performed during Festum Fluxorum/Fluxus/Musik und Antimusik/Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, February 3, 1963 1963
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Dick Higgins Danger Music No. 28 1963
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George Brecht, Claus Bremer, Earle Brown, Joseph Byrd, John Cage, Anthony Cox, David Degener, Walter De Maria, Henry Flynt, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Dennis Johnson, Ding Dong, Ray Johnson, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Maxfield, Robert Morris, Simone Forti An Anthology 1963
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George Brecht, Claus Bremer, Earle Brown, Joseph Byrd, John Cage, Anthony Cox, David Degener, Walter De Maria, Henry Flynt, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Dennis Johnson, Ding Dong, Ray Johnson, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Maxfield, Robert Morris, Simone Forti, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Dieter Roth, James Waring, Emmett Williams, Christian Wolff, La Monte Young An Anthology of chance operations, concept art, anti art, indeterminacy, plans of action, diagrams, music, dance constructions, improvization, meaningless work, natural disasters, compositions, mathematics, essays, poetry 1963
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Various Artists, Ay-O, George Brecht, Congo (a Chimpanzee), Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, György Sándor Ligeti, Jackson Mac Low, Benjamin Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young Fluxus 1 1964
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Various Artists, George Brecht, Stanley Brouwn, Congo (a Chimpanzee), Sohei Hashimoto, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, György Sándor Ligeti, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Benjamin Patterson, Takako Saito, Tomas Schmit, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young Fluxus 1 1964
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Various Artists, Eric Andersen, Ay-O, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Takehisa Kosugi, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts Fluxkit 1965
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Dick Higgins Invocation of Canyons and Boulders from Fluxkit 1965
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Various Artists, George Brecht, Stanley Brouwn, Congo (a Chimpanzee), Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, György Sándor Ligeti, George Maciunas, Jackson Mac Low, Benjamin Patterson, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young Fluxus 1 1964
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Dick Higgins Invocation of Canyons and Boulders 1965
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Various Artists, Ay-O, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young Fluxkit 1965
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Various Artists, Eric Andersen, Ay-O, George Brecht, Giuseppe Chiari, Congo (a Chimpanzee), Willem de Ridder, Anna Halprin, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Jirí Kolár, Arthur Köpcke, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Tomas Schmit, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young Construction of European Mail-order Warehouse/Fluxshop 1984 construction after 1964-65 photograph
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Various Artists, Joseph Beuys, René Block, Claus Bremer, Henning Christiansen, Hans Joachim Dietrich, Ludwig Gosewitz, Dick Higgins, Bernhard Höke, Allan Kaprow, Franz Mon, Benjamin Patterson, Eckart Rahn, Gerhard Rühm, Vagelis Tsakiridis, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, ZAJ dé-coll/age, no. 5 1966
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Dick Higgins Danger Music No. 17 (1962) c. 1962
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Various Artists, G. Altorjay, Mary Bauermeister, Peter O. Chotjewitz, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Bernhard Höke, Allan Kaprow, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Kurt Kren, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Marshall McLuhan, Gustav Metzger, Franz Mon, Peter Moore, Nam June Paik, Helmut Rywelski, Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Stefan Wewerka, Bill Wilson dé-coll/age, no. 6 1967
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Terry Riley, Hannah Weiner, H. C. Westermann, Roland Renrose, Ronnie Landfield, Joseph Kosuth, Dick Higgins, William Bryant, Enrico Baj, Aftograf, John Battan, Various Artists S.M.S. 3 1968
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Dick Higgins Ode to London from S.M.S. No. 3 1968
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Dick Higgins Symphony No. 357 from The Thousand Symphonies 1968
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Dick Higgins Symphony #269 from The Thousand Symphonies 1968
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Dick Higgins Free Dick Higgins 1969
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Dick Higgins Emmett Williams's Ear (L'Orecchio di Emmett Williams) 1977
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Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Marinus Boezem, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Robin Crozier, Hans Eijkelboom, Pieter Engels, Ken Friedman, Ad Gerritsen, Wim Gijzen, Klaas Gubbels, Richard Hamilton, Dick Higgins, Robert Jacks, Tommy Mew, Mauricio Nannucci, Richard Nonas, Arnulf Rainer, Dieter Roth, Yves De Smet, Al Souza, Endre Tót, Timm Ulrichs, Woody van Amen, Geurt van Dijk, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Various Artists The Archives: Art Information Centre Peter Van Beveren 1971–81, published 1981
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Dick Higgins Fluxus Art-Life Chart 1981
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Eric Andersen, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Philip Corner, Robert Filliou, Ken Friedman, Juan Hidalgo, Dick Higgins, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Walter Marchetti, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young, Various Artists Fluxus Anthology 1989
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