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Dick Higgins

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Also known as Richard Dick Carter Higgins, Richard Higgins

English composer and poet (1938-1998)

Person · Open Library

Born
1938
Works
52

Top works

  • Summary dissolution
  • Storm riders and other plays
  • A book about love & war & death, canto one
  • The great pamphlet series
  • Betwixt & between

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1929-07-27
Active to
2022-04-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
837
Total plays
3,362

Tags

fluxussound poetrypoetryexperimentalbritish

Dick Higgins (March 15, 1938 – October 25, 1998) was a composer, poet, printer, and early fluxus artist. Higgins was born in Cambridge, England, but raised in the United States in various parts of New England, including Worcester, Massachusetts, Putney, Vermont, and Concord, New Hampshire. Higgins studied composition with John Cage at the New School of Social Research in New York. He married fellow artist Alison Knowles in 1960. Both took part in the Wiesbaden, Germany Fluxus festival in 1962.

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Quotes

  • All form is a process of notation.
  • I never feel quite complete unless I'm doing all the arts-visual,musical,literary.
  • Happenings are a fusion of visual art , music and theatre.
  • Concrete poetry is a fusion of visual art and poetry.
  • Sound poetry is a fusion of music and literature.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Dick
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Cambridge
Place of death
Quebec
Educated at
Yale University
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Bachelor of Science
Field of work
printmaking
Movement
mail art
Official website
dickhiggins.org
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cause of death
myocardial infarction
date of birth
1938-03-15
date of death
1998-10-25
manner of death
natural causes
described by source
UbuWeb
has works in the collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
Sources (5)

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