Dick Higgins (born Cambridge, England 1938, died Quebec, Canada 1998) was a poet and early Fluxus artist. His most notable contributions include "Danger Music" scores and the use of the term Intermedia to describe the ineffable inter-disciplinary activities that became prevalent in the 1960s. He published forty-seven books. He founded Something Else Press editions in 1963, which published many important texts by artists including Gertrude Stein, George Brecht, Daniel Spoerri, and others. He worked with artists such as John Cage, Ray Johnson, Ken Friedman, and Alison Knowles. This article is about Cambridge, England; see also other places called Cambridge. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article describes the Canadian province. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Fluxus (from to flow) is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. ... Intermedia was a concept employed in the mid-sixties by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the ineffable, often confusing, inter-disciplinary activities that occur between genres that became prevalent in the 1960s. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Gertrude Stein was born in Pittsburgh on February 3, 1874 and passed on July 27, 1946 in Paris. ... George Brecht (born Halfway, Oregon, United States 1924) was an early Fluxus artist. ... Daniel Spoerri (born Daniel Isaac Feinstein 27 March 1930) is a Romanian-born French dancer and performance artist. ... John Cage John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912–August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer and writer. ... a photo of Ray Johnson in the 1960s taken by Toby Spiselman Raymond Edward Johnson (1927 - 1995) was an important post-Surrealism, pre-Pop collage artist. ... Ken Friedman is a seminal figure in Fluxus, an international experimental art, literature, and music movement. ... Alison Knowles (1933 - ) is an American artist who produced work in a number of forms. ...

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• Higgins Remembered