Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press : selected writings by Dick Higgins

The Resource Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press : selected writings by Dick Higgins
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Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press : selected writings by Dick Higgins
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selected writings by Dick Higgins
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edited by Steve Clay and Ken Friedman
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eng
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"There are few art-world figures as influential--and as little known--as Dick Higgins (1938-98), cofounder of Fluxus, 'polyartist,' poet, scholar, theorist, composer, performer and, not least, the publisher of the legendary Something Else Press. In 1965 he restored the term 'intermedia' to the English language, giving it new dimension to recognize the dissolution of boundaries between traditional modes of art-making and the open field for new forms that cannot be compartmentalized. His own contributions to intermedia are many--as a participant and instigator of happenings, as writer and composer straddling traditional and vanguard forms, among others--but it was Something Else Press (1963-74) that redefined how 'the book' could inhabit that energized, in-between space. Something Else Press was as much a critical statement and radical experiment as it was a collection of books by some of the most luminary artists and writers of the 20th century: Gertrude Stein, John Cage, Ray Johnson, Dieter Roth, Bern Porter, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Emmett Williams, Robert Filliou, and George Brecht, among many others. Along with his Great Bear Pamphlet series and the Something Else newsletter, Higgins exploited and subverted conventional book production and marketing strategies to get unconventional and avant-garde works into the hands of new and often unsuspecting readers."--
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Inside flap, front cover
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YDX
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002.09
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illustrations
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index present
LC call number
PS3558.I36
LC item number
I58 2018
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non fiction
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bibliography

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