Finding aid for the Dick Higgins papers, 1960-1994 (bulk 1972-1993)
Finding aid prepared by Lynda Bunting.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Dick Higgins papers
Date (inclusive): 1960-1994 (bulk 1972-1993)
Number: 870613
Creator/Collector:
Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998
Physical Description:
108.0 linear feet
(81 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: American artist, poet, writer, publisher, composer, and educator. The archive contains papers collected or generated by Higgins,
documenting his involvement with Fluxus and happenings, pattern and concrete poetry, new music, and small press publishing
from 1972 to 1994, with some letters dated as early as 1960.
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Biographical/Historical Note
Dick Higgins is known for his extensive literary, artistic and theoretical activities. Along with his writings in poetry,
theory and scholarship, Higgins published the well-known Something Else Press and was a cooperative member of Unpublished/Printed
Editions; co-founded Fluxus and Happenings; wrote performance and graphic notations for theatre, music, and non-plays; and
produced and created paintings, sculpture, films and the large graphics series 7.7.73. Higgins received numerous grants and
prizes in support of his many endeavors.
Born Richard Carter Higgins in Cambridge, England, March 15, 1938, Higgins studied at Columbia University, New York (where
he received a bachelors degree in English, 1960), the Manhattan School of Printing, New York, and the New School of Social
Research, 1958-59, with John Cage and Henry Cowell. He attended Cage's composition class, where he met George Brecht, Allan
Kaprow, Al Hansen and other future Fluxus artists. In 1958 Hansen and Higgins formed the New York Audio Visual Group, which
was one of the groups to develop the concept of Happenings. The following year Higgins in association with Richard Maxfield,
another of Cage's students, presented
Stacked Deck, one of the earliest multi-media performances. Higgins also helped Kaprow put together his first New York happening
18 Happenings in 6 Parts that same year. Moreover, he also participated in the series of performances at George Maciunas' AG Gallery in 1961.
Higgins married artist Alison Knowles in 1960. They traveled extensively in Europe from 1962-63 to establish contacts and
soak up the artistic atmosphere. They occasionally collaborated on Fluxus performances, but mostly kept their art separate,
consulting and advising each other when necessary. Their twin daughters Hannah and Jessica were born in 1964. After their
1970 divorce, Higgins and Knowles maintained friendly relations and shared residences. They later remarried in 1984, mostly
for financial reasons and convenience.
In 1961 Higgins co-founded Fluxus with Maciunas and others when that same year Maciunas began his Fluxus press. Maciunas wanted
to publish a series of anthologies of very new and avant-garde art based on La Monte Young's
An Anthology, which Maciunas had designed and produced. He proposed publishing an anthology of Higgins entire life's work. However, Higgins
thought the publication would be too large for commercial publication. They agreed instead to include everything Higgins wrote,
composed or invented between April 13, 1962 and April 13, 1963 (Thomas Jefferson's birthday). Since Maciunas was taking too
long, Higgins decided to publish the work himself. Thus, Higgins founded Something Else Press in 1964. Its first publication
was his Jefferson's Birthday/Postface, two books bound back to back.
A Fluxus work by definition must be cheap and mass-producible. However, Higgins' press published experimental literature in
high-quality trade formats with remarkable design features intended for commercial mainstream publication. It was the first
publishing house in the United States to devote itself to "artists books." Higgins also published the
Something Else Newsletter, 1966-1973 and operated the Something Else Gallery, 1966-69, which in 1966 showed the first exhibit of concrete poetry in
the United States.
John Cage's philosophy of integrating art and life influenced Higgins' own artistic and theoretical ideas. Higgins' important
concept of "intermedia," stated in 1965, is a direct outgrowth of Cage's ideas. Higgins identified Happenings and contemporary
experiments in theatre and the visual arts as arts that "fall between media."
Higgins hired Barbara Moore and Emmett Williams as editors for Something Else Press. Williams replaced Moore when she went
on maternity leave in 1966, and remained there until both he and Higgins moved to California in 1970, Higgins to teach at
California Institute of the Arts. Williams' subsequent involvement with the press would be based more on their personal relationship.
But, their friendship grew increasingly strained until they broke off relations entirely in 1975, over a property dispute.
They reconciled a few years later. Jan Herman took over as director of Something Else Press in 1973, when Higgins left to
tend to personal and financial problems. The press went bankrupt the following year.
In 1971, Higgins settled in West Glover, Vermont, near Stinehour Press which has been called "the finest letterpress book
printer in North America." The presence of Stinehour influenced what and how Higgins published. Higgins founded Unpublished
Editions in 1972 as an offshoot of Something Else Press when Herman rejected Amigo for publication. Unpublished Editions was
a hybrid between the traditional small press and an artists' cooperative. Its members included Higgins, Knowles, Cage, Philip
Corner, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jackson Mac Low, Pauline Oliveros, and later, Jerome Rothenberg. It was renamed Printed Editions
in 1978 and discontinued in 1985.
In 1974 Higgins had a nervous breakdown. He recuperated at Silver Hill Sanitarium for several months. The breakdown was caused
by a combination of many factors: financial difficulties due to the renovation of his Vermont home, and personal problems,
including a long bout with alcoholism and an increasingly problematic relationship with Eugene Williams, Emmett's son. The
breakdown was precipitated by severe loneliness during his DAAD grant stay in Berlin. His lodgings were in an old castle on
the outskirts of town, away from his friends and most other DAAD recipients. He became painfully lonely, had little money
and drank heavily. He was forced to leave the program early, but later returned in 1981.
Higgins has had long-term relationships with both Eugene Williams in the early to mid 1970s and Bryan McHugh from the mid
1980s to the 1990s. Higgins' homosexuality is most notably illustrated in his books
Amigo,
For Eugene in Germany and
Of Celebration of Morning and his many poetry contributions for gay magazines. His writings about homosexuality virtually ceased in the early 1980s
after the commercial failure of
Of Celebration of Morning and his remarriage to Knowles.
When Higgins' health improved, he entered graduate studies in English at New York University, 1975-1979. He received a master
of arts degree in 1977. Higgins' studies led to his discovery of old visual poetry. His masters thesis was refined into his
first scholarly publication,
George Herbert's Pattern Poems: in their Tradition, 1977, which became the foundation for his research on
Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature, 1987. Higgins attempted to enter New York University's Ph.D. program, but aborted the idea when he failed all of his qualifying
exams in 1979.
When Higgins' financial problems became acute again in 1980, he moved from his large house in Vermont, with its indoor swimming
pool, and bought and renovated a church in Barrytown, New York. Among his neighbors was George Quasha, publisher of Station
Hill Press, who published, among others, Robert Kelly and Jackson Mac Low. Higgins found his new home small, but adaptable
to his needs. From 1980-1983 he published many collections of scores including
Piano Album and
Sonata for Prepared Piano. Higgins also completed his DAAD fellowship in Berlin from 1981-1982.
From the 80's to his death Higgins spent much of his time writing scholarly bibliographies and theoretical discourses. Upon
Higgins' return from Germany he delved into the subject of pattern poetry, which preoccupied him for over twenty years. His
most intensive research occurred from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s. Higgins' involvement with pattern poetry culminated
in 1986-1987 with the publication of the pattern poetry issue of Visible Language, which Higgins edited, and his book
Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature. He also attended the Wolfenbüttel Conference (1987) on pattern poetry as an expert in the field.
Higgins remained active throughout the 1990s. Among his many projects, he edited and annotated Charles Doria's translation
of Giordano Bruno's
On the Composition of Images, Signs and Ideas, 1991 and wrote
Modernism Since Postmodernism, 1997. Higgins died October 26, 1998 in Quebec City, Canada.
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Dick Higgins papers, 1960-1994 (bulk 1972-1993), Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 870613.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa870613
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1986; five additional supplements received 1989-1994.
Processing History
Several catalogers have worked on various aspects of the collection, including Higgins himself. Michel Oren compiled a preliminary
inventory, Sept 1991-June 1992. The document he produced was not incorporated into this finding aid, because it no longer
reflected the box organization subsequently created. In July 1992, Higgins specified the series arrangement utilized in this
finding aid and interfiled some of Series I, II and III. Jocelyn Gibbs, from January-May 1993 finished most of the remaining
preliminary organization with assistance from Natalia Costea. Gibbs also completed physical processing and made finding aid
notes for Series I, A-H and most of Series II. Lynda Bunting, from May 1993-January 1994, completed physical processing of
Series I, II, and all of Series III, IV, and V. She also wrote the finding aid by incorporating Gibbs's notes with her own.
In November 1993, Higgins worked directly with Bunting in order to interfile the recently received supplement and to identify
unknown items.
Separated Material
Books and Journal issues
Circa 118 items were transferred to the Getty Research Library for accessioning and cataloging 6 Mar 1996. A few titles had
multiple copies and others were duplicates of items already in the Library.
Petasz, Pawel.
10 theses, 1978.
100. Karton, 1984/1986. Köln: Edition Hundertmark, 1986.
ASA. (1-3; vol. 4, no. 4; vol. 5, no. 5; vol. 6, no. 6)
Kempton, Karl.
A/round / Karl Kempton. Toronto, Canada: CURVD H 388, 1988.
AB : art in bookform : an exhibition / curated by Maurizio Nannucci and Pier Luigi Tazzi. Florence : Zona Archives, 1987.
Friedman, Ken.
After fluxus. Hombeek, Belgium : PostFluxPost, Luce Fierens, 1992?
Alabama dogshoe moustache #5 / ed by Geof Huth. Schenectady, N.Y. : G. Huth, c. 1989.
Andersen, Eric.
Anne Regge, Poul Nesdunk, Geert Reiemsbrah, Michael Nesredep. Tryk Mogens Sandberg, 1983?
Higgins, Dick.
The autobiography of the moon : a commentary on the hsin-hsin-ming.
Backworks.
Backworks? New York, 1976.
Vostell, Wolf.
Betonierungen / Vostell. Hinwil [Schweiz] : Howeg, 1971?
The Black Mountain Poets: the emergence of an American school of poetics, June 26-28, 1987. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY : Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, 1987.
Nichol, B. P.
Bored messengers. Prince George, B.C. : Gorse Press, 1988.
Higgins, Dick.
Buster Keaton enters into Paradise, 1994.
Calm seas, auspicious gales. Marciana, Isola d'Elba, 1983.
Higgins, Dick.
Cat Alley : a long short novel, 1976.
Granary books Catalog. No. 26 (Aug 1989).
Giorno Poetry Systems Institute Catalog. No. 19 (1989)
Something Else Catalog. Fall/Winter (1973/1974).
Nichol, B. P.
CCMC with Steve McCaffery : sketching 2. Toronto, 1988.
Clown war, ca. 1972.
Coda: poets & writers newsletter.
Collaborations and connections : 20th century collaborative bookworks: 11 Feb 1990- 25 Mar 1990, University Art Museum and Hayden Library, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Higgins, Dick.
Computers for the arts. ca. 1970.
Contemporaries: new art from Finland, 1982-1983.
Contemporary authors autobiography series.
D.i.s.c.o.t.h.è.q.u.e.-- : expériences sonores d'artistes : Maison du livre, de l'image et du son, Ville de Villeurbanne,
octobre-novembre 1989.
Higgins, Dick. A bio/bibliography, 1979.
Drawing toward sculpture : six Maine sculptors, Chris Duncan, Lewis Iselin, Phil Kaelin, Gretchen Lucchesi, Celeste Roberge,
Carolyn Treat
. Portland, Me. : Baxter Gallery, ca. 1987.
E pod.
Ear magazine.
Exquisite corpse. Baltimore, Md. : Culture Shock Foundation, 1983.
Hendricks, Geoffrey.
Five found photographs / Geoffrey Hendricks. New York : Printed Editions, ca. 1979.
Friedman, Ken.
Fluxus 1992. Budapest: Artpool, 1992.
Freibord.
French window: idée, Goran Trbuljak ; conception et réalisation, Ida Biard. Zagreb: Galerija Studentskog centra, 1973.
Baxter, Glen.
Funny looking. Liège: Cirque Divers, 1991.
Palaia, Franc.
Great walls of China. foreword by Peter Frank., 1984.
Grupa 143. Beograd: Galerija Sre'cna nova umetnost; Zagreb : Galerija Studentskog Centra, 1979.
Higgins, Dick.
Happytime: the medicine man, 1992.
Hole. no. 2 (1990).
Du Pont, Diana C.
In dialogue: the art of Elsa Rady and Robert Mapplethorpe : Santa Barbara Museum of Art, February 6 through March 28, 1993.
The International Shadow Project: Art Gallery, San Diego State University, August-September, 1989.
Mac Low, Jackson.
Is that wool hat my hat? : (from what Richard Kostelanetz asked me at the 12th International Sound Poetry Festival, Washington
Square Church, New York, 4/13/80) : for two, three, or four voices
, 1982.
Higgins, Dick.
The journey : eight colored scenes, 1992.
Kaldron.
Latitudes 320-490. No. 1 (1979).
Walter, Daniel.
A little beard book. Urbana, Ohio: Oll Korrect Press, ca. 1975.
Bernard, Sidney.
Metamorphosis of peace: essays & poems. Newton, MA.: Arts End Books, ca. 1984.
Mississippi Mud. no. 20 (1979).
Fox, Connie.
Nachthymnen. Santa Barbara: J. Mudfoot, 1986.
Trbuljak, Goran.
Neobjavljene stranice iz zapisa jednog umjetnika 1968-1978 = Les pages non-publiées des ecrits d'un artiste 1968-1978. Zagreb: Galerija Studentskog Centra, 1978.
Nichol, B. P. New new H blues. Toronto : CURVD H&Z 379, 1988.
Sikorski, Tomasz.
Obrazy. Klodzko: Klodzki O'srodek Kultury, Galeria, 1987.
Higgins, Dick.
Of celebration of morning: a polysemiotic fiction, 1980.
Barbieri, Olivo.
Olivio Barbieri : Commune di Rimini, Assessorato alla Cultura, Galleria dell'Immagine, Palazzo Gambalunga, 23 aprile-21 maggio,
1983?
Petasz, Pawel.
Pages of contemplation. Jqe Rubber Press, 1978.
Bernstein, Charles.
Poetic justice. Baltimore: Pod Books, c. 1979.
Neveu, Angéline.
Rêve. Vanves : Cahiers Loques, 1982.
Finlay, Ian Hamilton.
A sailor's calendar; a miscellany. New York: Something Else Press, 1971.
Sartori (Win-Spr. 1989).
Rice, Shelley.
Schemes, a decade of installation drawings. New York, NY : E. Meyer, 1981.
Higgins, Dick.
Six trivial reflections, c. 1978.
Sparrow. no. 24 (1974).
Walter, Daniel.
Spasmic vistas. Urbana, Ohio: Oll Korrect Press, ca. 1974.
Higgins, Dick.
Spring game: an opera for shadow puppets, 1974.
Stanze del tempo: Irma Blank, Helmut Dirnaichner, Christina Kubish, Elisabeth Scherffig. Milano: Centro Internazionale Brera, 1988.
Higgins, Dick.
Suggested by small swallows, 1973.
Madson, Jerry.
A summer of blues : a experimental novel. Bemidji, MN: Truly Fine Press, ca. 1975.
Nichol, B. P.
Three rhymes. North Vancouver, B.C.: Silver Birch Press, 1988.
Lax, Robert.
Tiger. Lyndonville, Vt.: Furthermore Press, ca. 1983.
Phillips, Tom. Dante's Inferno: materials for a book [exhibition] 2-26 Nov 1983, Waddington Galleries, 1983.
Uni/vers(;), (1987-1992) : peacedream-project : 5 Jahre : Künstlerprojekt für Visuelle und experimentelle Poesie = 5 years
: artists' project for visual and experimental poetry. Halle/Saale : Poetry Factory, 1992.
Unmuzzled Ox.
Galerie und Edition Hundertmark.
Verlagsverzeichnis 1970-1991.
Smith, Vincent D.
Vincent Smith, monoprints : January 13-February 10, 1989, MASC, Mid Hudson Arts and Science Center, 1989.
Harroff, William.
William Harroff, artists' books. Edwardsville, IL : W. Harroff, 1989?
The Word and beyond: four literary cosmologists / Dick Higgins ... [et al.]. New York: Smith, 1982.
Words. vol. 11, no. 5 (1974).
Writer's digest, reader's art. Franklin Furnace, New York, May 20 to July 1, 1989.
Upjohn, Judith Farley.
You can't get milk from an earlobe : primal time at the (cafe wha?). New York City: Flockophobic Press Ltd., c. 1990.
Microfilm
Higgins acquired from various sources books with pattern poetry examples (49 microfilm titles on 40 reels). Most of these
books are rare, a few being perhaps the only copies in the United States. The reels, some of which contain more than one monograph,
were transferred to the library. Following is a list of titles:
El piston [microform]. Ano 1, num. 1 (abril 1864) Madrid : Hemeroteca municipal, 1864
Abele von und zu Lilienberg, Matthias, 1616 or 18 1677.
Kuenstliche Unordnung [microform] : das ist, Wunder seltsame niemals in offentlichen Druck gekommene Gerichts und ausser Gerichts doch warhaffte
Begebenheiten, meistentheils aus eigener Erfahrnus / zusammengetragen und ebner massen, mit gantz neu erfundnen lustigen und
kurtzweiligen Anmerckungen, doch zwischen Schimpff und Ernst gezieret und vermehret durch Matthiam Abele, von und zu Lilienberg.
Zum andernmal aufgelegt. [Nuremberg] : Verlegung Michael und Johann Friderich Endtern, 1670.
Abele von und zu Lilienberg, Matthias, 1616 or 1618 1677.
Metamorphosis telae judiciariae, das ist, Seltzame Gerichts Haendel [microform] : samt denen hierauf gleichfalls seltzam erfolgten Gerichts Ausspruechen, Zusammengetragen mit lustigen Anmerckungen
erlaeutert auch unterschiedlichen Geschichten vermehret, und an vielen Orten verbessert / durch Matthiam Abele von Lilienberg,
der hochloebl. Fruchtbringenden Gesellschafft Mit Genossen. Zum sechstenmal gedruckt. Nuernberg : In Verlegung Iohann Georg
Endters, 1684.
Arvidi, Andreas.
Manuductio ad poesin svecanam, thet aer, en kort handledning til thet swenske poeterij, versz eller rijm konsten [microform] / foerfaerdigad och sammandragen vthaff Andrea Arvidi. Strengnaes : Zackarias Brocken, 1651.
Baianus, Andreas.
Panegyricvs sine verbis de S. Philippi Nerii lavdibvs [microform] : dictvs in eius diei celebritate Vrbeveteri in maiore basilica, anno. M.DC.XXIX avctore Andrea Bajano ... Vrbeveteri
: Ex typographia Rainaldi Ruuli, 1629
Bonifacio, Baldassare, 1586 1659.
Balthassaris Bonifacii Mvsarvm liber XXV, Vrania [microform] : ad Dominicvm Molinvm. Venetiis : Apvd Antonivm Pinellvm, 1628.
Bosworth, William, 1607 1650?
The chast and lost lovers [microform] : lively shadowed in the persons of Arcadius and Sepha, and illustrated with the severall stories of Haemon and
Antigone, Eramio and Amissa, Phaon and Sappho, Delithason and Verista ... : to this is added the contestation betwixt Bacchus
and Diana, and certain sonnets of the author to Avrora / digested into these poems by Will. Bosworth. London : Printed by
F.L for Laurence Blaiklock ..., 1651.
Boyssieres, Jean de.
Les troisiemes oevvres [microform] / de Iean de Boyssieres. A Lyon : Pour Loys Cloqvemin, 1579.
Caramuel Lobkowitz, Juan, 1606 1682.
[Primus calamus ob oculos ponens metametricam] Ioannis Caramvelis Primvs calamus ob ocvlos ponens metametricam [microform] : qvae varijs currentium, recurrentium, adscendentium, descendentium, nec non circumvolantium versuum ductibus,
avt aeri incisos, avt bvxo inscvlptos, avt plvmbo infvsos mvltiformes labyrinthos exornat. Romae : Fabius Falconius excudebat,
anno 1663.
Cerone, Pietro, ca. 1560 1625.
El melopeo y maestro [microform] : tractado de mvsica theorica y pratica ; en que se pone por extenso, lo que vno para hazerse perfecto musico
ha menester saber ; y por mayor facilidad, comodidad, y claridad del lector, esta repartido en XXII. libros ... / compuesto
por el R.D. Pedro Gerone ... En Napoles : Por Iuan Bautista Gargano y Lucrecio Nucci, impressores, 1613.
Chabrol, C.
L'Orizelle dv sr. Chabrol, ov, Les extremes movvements d'amour [microform] : tragi comedie. A Paris : Chez Matthiev Colombel, 1633.
Cirier, Nicolas, 1792 1869.
L'oeil typographique [microform]. Offert aux hommes de lettres, de l'un et de l'autre sexe, notamment a MM. les correcteurs, protes, sous protes,
etc. Paris, Firmin Didot; et chez l'auteur, 1839.
Coste, Guillaume de.
La Lizimene, comedie pastoralle [microform] / par le sr. G. de Coste. A Paris : Chez Thomas de la Rvelle, 1632.
Curti, Lancino, d. 1512.
[Epigrammaton libri decem] Lancini Cvrtii Epigrammaton libri decem [microform].Mediolani : Apud Rochum & Ambrosium fratres de Valle impressores : Philippus Foyot faciebat, 1521.
Dick, William B. (William Brisbane), 1827 1901.
Dick's original album verses and acrostics [microform]. Containing original verses for autograph albums; to accompany bouquets; for birthdays; for wooden, tin, crystal,
silver and golden weddings; for album dedications; for philopena forfeits; for congratulation; for valentines in general,
and all trades and professions. Also a collection of two hundred and eighteen ladies' Christian names, with their derivation
and meaning, and an original acrostic with each name. New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [c. 1879]
Gonzalez Estrada, Jose.
Poesias [microform] / de D. Jose Gonzalez Estrada. [Madrid : Duran?, 1864]
Gonzalez Estrada, Jose.
El siglo poetico [microform] / escrito por Jose Gonzalez Estrada. Burdeos : Impr. Jacquet, 1861.
Gorgias, of Leontini.
[Helenes enkomion] Gorgiae Helena [microform]; recognovit et interpretatus est Otto Immisch. Berlin und Leipzig, W. de Gruyter, 1927.
Le Comte.
La Dorimene dv sr. Le Comte [microform]. A Paris : Chez Cardin Besonge, 1633.
Liceti, Fortunio, 1577 1657.
Ad Alas Amoris divini a Simmia rhodio compactas ... encyclopaedia Fortvnii Liceti [microform] ... Patauij : Typis Iulij Criuellarij, 1640.
Liceti, Fortunio, 1577 1657.
Ad Epei secvrim encyclopaedia Fortvnii Liceti [microform] ... Bononiae : Typis Iacobi Montij, 1637.
Liceti, Fortunio, 1577 1657.
[Ad Syringam Publilianam encyclopaedia] Fortvnii Liceti genvensis in Patauino lyceo philosophi ordinarij ad Syringam Pvblilianam
encyclopaedia
[microform]: in qua Publilij fistula describitur, explicaturq; tactis vetustioribus poematijs sphere, throni, labyrinthi,
ac pepli ... Patauij, apud Liuium Pasquatum, & Iacobum Bortolum. 1635.
Liceti, Fortunio, 1577 1657.
Allegoria peripatetica de generatione, amicitia, et privatione in Aristotelicvm aenigma Elia Lelia Crispis [microform] / Fortvnivs Licetvs genvensis ... Patauij : Apud Gasparem Criuellarium, 1630.
Liceti, Fortunio, 1577 1657.
L'amicitia incomparabile de gl'illvstriss. signori Niccolo Barbarigo e Marco Trivisano, gentilhuomini venetiani [microform] : celebrata con diuerse maniere di poesie et altre compositioni volgari et latine da molti eccellenti ingegni
del nostro secolo ... In Venetia : Apresso Marco Ginammi, 1627.
Liceti, Fortunio, 1577 1657.
Encyclopaedia ad Aram mysticam Nonarii Terrigenae anonymi vetustissimi [microform] / Fortvnivs Licetvs ... Patauij : Apud Gasparem Criuellarium, 1630.
Liceti, Fortunio, 1577 1657.
Fortvnii Liceti...Ad Syringam, a Theocrito syracusio compactam & inflatam, encyclopaedia [microform]... Vtini, Ex typographia Nicolai Schiratti, 1655.
Liceti, Fortunio, 1577 1657.
Fortvnii Liceti...Vlysses apvd Circen, sive, De qvadrvplici transformatione, deque varie transformatis hominibus dialogvs
ethico physicus
[microform]. Vtini, Ex typographia Nicolai Schiratti, 1636.
Lobo, Manuel da Gama, 1658 1742, praeses.
Caesareas conclusiones [microform] : deductas ex elegantibus titulis D. de Jure codillorum & C. de crimine expilatae haereditatis his quae ibi suttiliter
notavit ... Emmanuel a Gama Lobo, cujus nominis ingeniosum anagrama Malo Gamam Labeone V. quinquies eum explicat ... & defendit
Felix Josephus a Costa ...Ulyssipone Occidentali : Apud Petrum Ferreyra ; 1726.
Mairet, Jean de, 1604 1686.
Chriseide et Arimand [microform] : tragi comedie / par le sieur Mairet. A Paris : Iouxte la copie imprimee a Roueen, Chez Iacqves Besonge, 1630.
Montluc, Andrien de, 1568 1646.
La comedie de proverbes [microform] : piece comique. 2. ed. A Paris : Chez Francois Targa, 1640.
Pigna, Giovan Battista, 1529 1575.
Io. Baptistae Pignae carminvm lib. qvatvor [microform]... His adiunximus Caelii Calcagnini carm. lib. III, Lvdovici Areosti carm. lib. II. Venetiis, Ex officina Erasmiana,
Vincentii Valgrisii, 1553.
Pignoria, Lorenzo, 1571 1631.
Miscella elogiorvm adclamationvm adlocvtionvm conclamationvm epitaphiorvm et inscriptionvm [microform] / avctore Lavrentio Pignorio patavino, Io. Baptista Martinio collectore. Patavii : Apvd Impr. Camerales, [1626]
Rarezas literarias [microform]; florilegio de composiciones curiosas y extravagantes de autores antiguos y modernos, recopilados y ordenadas
por Eduardo de Ory. Cadiz, M. Ceron Bohorquez, [1939]
Rayssiguier, sieur de, fl. 1630 1636.
La Celidee sovs le nom de Calirie, ov, De la generosite d'amovr [microform] ... / par le sieur de Rayssigvier. A Paris : Chez Tovssainct Qvinet, 1635.
Reuchlin, Johann, 1455 1522.
[De arte cabalistica] Ioannis Revchlin ... De arte cabalistica libri tres [microform] : iam denvo adcvrate revisi. Haganoae : Apud Iohannem Secerium, 1530.
Salmon Macrin, Jean, 1490 1557.
[Lyricorum libri duo, epithalamiorum liber unus] Salmonij Macrini Ivliodvnensis Lyricorvm libri dvo ... epithalamiorvm liber
vnvs
[microform]. Parisiis : Ex officina Gerardi Morrhij, 1531.
Speed, Samuel, 1631 1682.
Prison pietie, or, Meditations divine and moral [microform] : digested into poetical heads, on mixt and various subjects : whereunto is added a panegyrick to the right reverend,
and most nobly descended, Henry Lord Bishop of London / by Samuel Speed ...
London : Printed by J.C. for S.S. ..., 1677.
Spelta, Antonio Maria, 1559 1632.
La cvriosa et diletteuole aggionta del sig. Ant. Maria Spelta, cittadino pavese, all'historia sua [microform] : nella qvale oltra la vaghezza di molte cose, che dall'anno 1596 fino al 1603 s'intendono, sono anco componimenti
arguti, da quali non poco gusto gli eleuati spiriti potranno prendere. In Pavia : Appresso Pietro Bartoli, 1602.
Spelta, Antonio Maria, 1559 1632.
Donneschi trofei dal sig. Ant. Maria Spelta, poeta regio [microform] : ad honore delle done cortesi, benigne, e saggie, et a conivsion delle ingrate, orgogliose, e rozze, gratiosamente
eretti : opera molto esemplare, e di gran frutto, a fare, che i Mariti amando, e rispettando le Mogli, viuano lieti, e concordi
nelle case loro.
In Pavia : Apresso Pietro Bartoli, 1612.
Spelta, Antonio Maria, 1559 1632.
Enchiridion, seu, Commentarivm ad contexendas epistolas [microform]. Necnon dicendi primordia ab Antonio Maria Spelta ... quam plurimis ex auctoribus collectum ... Papiae, Apvd
Hieronymvm Bartolvm, 1591.
Spelta, Antonio Maria, 1559 1632.
Historia d'Antonio Maria Spelta, cittadino pavese, de'fatti notabili occorsi nell'vniuerso [microform] : & in particolare del regno de'Gothi, de'Logobardi, de i duchi di Milano, & d'altre segnalate persone, dall'anno
di nostra salute VL. fino al MDIIIC : nel qual tempo fiorirono i vescoui, che ressero la chiesa dell'antichissima e real citta
di Pauia, le cui vite breuemente si narrano : con vna nvova aggivnta dell'istesso autore dall'anno 1596 fino al 1602.
In Pavia : Appresso Pietro Bartoli, 1603.
Spelta, Antonio Maria, 1559 1632.
La Pavia trionfante [microform] / d'Antonio Maria Spelta. In Pavia : Per Andrea Viani, 1606.
Spelta, Antonio Maria, 1559 1632.
La solenne et trionfante entrata dell'illustrissimo & reuerendissimo vescouo monsignor Gio. Battista Biglio nell'antichissima
& regal Citta di Pauia
[microform] : con le allegrezze & archi, con le historie, imprese, emblemi, simboli, gieroglifici, imagini, iscrittioni,
versi, sentenze, & motti / del signor Antonio Maria Spelta ... ; con vn discorso dell'istesso auttore dell'origine, forma,
vso & misteri del Pallio. In Pavia : per Pietro Bartoli, 1609.
Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1654 1685.
Occasions off spring, or, Poems upon severall occasions [microform] / by Mathew Stevenson. London : Printed for John Place, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1645.
Sutor, Andreas.
Der hundert augige blinde Argos und zwey gsichtige Janus, oder, Latinum chaos der andere Bettl Hafen, sage, Hoenig oder Glucks
Hafen
[microform] : aus vilen Buecheren herausgezogene nutzlich, geist und weltliche Ehr und Lehr Spruech : emplemata, lemmata,
seltzsame Spruechwoerter ... / ab Andrea Sutore ... Augspurg ; und Muenchen : verlegt und zu finden bey Mathaeus Rieger, 1740.
Tellez Giron, Pedro, duque de Osuna, 1574 1624.
Carminvm libri qvatvor ossvnensivm dvci, Collegii neapolitani Societatis Iesv mvnvscvlvm [microform] : laudationem continens, qua a Patribus eiusdem Societatis exceptus est. [after 1617]
Voulte, Jean, d. 1542.
[Inscriptionum libri duo]. Ioan. Vvlteii Rhemi inscriptionvm libri duo [microform] : ad Aegidium Boherum, Archid. Rhem & Auen : ad Barpt. Castellanvm Nicaeum Xeniorum libellus. [Paris] : Apvd
Sim. Colinaevm, 1538.
Wang, Chung hou, b. 1887.
Chinese palindrome, the world's most exquisite literature [microform] / by Wang Chung Hou. Singapore : China Society, [196 ]
Scope and Content of Collection
The Dick Higgins collection extensively documents Higgins' literary, performance, music, artistic and personal activities
from 1972 to 1993, with some correspondence with family members, lawyers and accountants dated as early as 1960. Higgins'
early Fluxus, Happenings and Something Else Press publishing activities are not as well represented. Most of that material
from ca.1957-1971 is now housed at Archive Sohm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
This archive consists primarily of carbons of Higgins' letters. Written in a frank and open style, the letters contain many
artistic and personal insights into his numerous endeavors. Attached to his letters are many responses and, in some cases
extensive exchanges with Fluxus, Mail art and Art and Language artists, Concrete and Sound poets and New Music composers,
and small press publishers and poets. Thus, the correspondence includes many art "pieces" and manuscripts sent to Higgins
as gifts or for comment.
The archive contains a substantial quantity of Higgins' works in original manuscript form, some with annotations and correspondence,
and also includes works rejected by Higgins. Additionally housed is production material on 26 of Higgins' 45 published books
from Something Else Press, Unpublished/Printed Editions and elsewhere, along with books by four other authors (two at Something
Else Press and two others for Emmett Williams and Robert Filliou) and one killed project. Many of his earlier books, ephemeral
publications and other works may be found in the Getty Research Institute's Jean Brown archive (Special Collections accession
no. 890164), as well as the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection and the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete
and Visual Poetry. The collection also has a small amount of miscellaneous personal papers and extensive research and correspondence
files accumulated by Higgins for his publication
Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature, 1987.
Arrangement note
The archive is organized in 5 series:
Series I. Correspondence;
Series II. Works;
Series III. Books;
Series IV. Personal;
Series V. Pattern Poetry.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Topics
Art, American--20th century
Arts--Experimental methods
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Concrete poetry
Fluxus (Group of artists)
Happening (Art)
Music--20th century
Performance art--United States
Poetry, Modern--20th century
Publishers and publishing--United States
Small presses--United States
Genres and Forms of Material
Artists' books--United States--20th century
Drawings (visual works)--20th century
Intermedia--20th century
Mail art--20th century
Photographic prints--20th century
Photographs, Original
Poems--20th century
Scores--20th century
Contributors
Adler, Jeremy D.
Andersen, Eric
B., Mats, 1951-
Benjamin, Jerry
Boyd, Don, 1934-
Brecht, George
Cage, John
Cook, Geoffrey
Cooper, Michael, 1930-
Corner, Philip
Ernst, Ulrich, 1944-
Filliou, Robert
Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Frank, Peter, 1950-
Friedman, Ken, 1949-
Hatherly, Ana
Hendricks, Geoffrey
Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995
Kempton, Karl
Klintberg, Bengt af, 1938-
Knowles, Alison
Kostelanetz, Richard
Mac Low, Jackson
Mahlow, Dietrich
McCaffery, Steve
Mew, Tommy
Moran, Robert, 1937-
Morris, Michael, 1942-
Morrow, Charlie
Nannucci, Maurizio, 1939-
Nations, Opal L.
Oliveros, Pauline, 1932-
Pedersen, Knud, 1925-
Peters, Robert, 1924-
Phillips, Michael Joseph
Polkinhorn, Harry
Porter, Bern, 1911-2004
Printed Editions
Rypson, Piotr
Sarenco, 1945-
Sohm, Hanns, 1921-
Something Else Press
Tóth, Gábor, 1950-
Unpublished Editions (Firm)
Vautier, Ben, 1935-
Vostell, Wolf, 1932-1998
Williams, Emmett
Williams, Eugene, 1955-
Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008
Series I.
Correspondence,
1953-1994
Physical Description:
54.0 linear feet
36 boxes
Scope and Content Note
This series consists primarily of letters, but also contains printed ephemera, mail art, manuscripts, performance instructions,
compositions, artists' books, drawings, and photographs of individuals, performance, and art work. Types of correspondence
include letters about intimate personal matters, the Fluxus movement, performances, concrete and pattern poetry, and music.
Files are arranged alphabetically by correspondent with miscellaneous correspondence at the end of each alpha letter. Material
and correspondence for performances (often referred to as "gigs") is generally filed alphabetically by city or institution.
Includes: Adler, Jeremy (British poet and scholar), , ,
1984 1987-1990 1993
Scope and Content Note
Personal and pattern poetry correspondence, 31 items, (see also Series V-B, Box 77).
Af Klintberg, Bengt (Swedish composer and Fluxus artist),
1974-1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes personal and other correspondence related to Fluxus artists, Dick Higgins's 1977 performance in Sweden, and Swedish
folklife; also contains 10 photographs of a diver's suit ("Forest Diver"), ca. 107 items, (see also Series V-B, Box 77).
Aguiar, Fernando (Portuguese visual poet, in
Partisan Review),
1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes printed ephemera related to "Poesia: outra Escrita Novo Suporte" and 10 photos, ca. 40 items, 1986-1991.
Ahern, Tom (Burning Deck Press),
1972-1978
Scope and Content Note
8 letters. See also Waldrop correspondence.
Alpert, Barry (editor of
Vort),
1975-1977
Scope and Content Note
Some letters related to Something Else Press
Vort issue and other correspondence regarding the publishing business, ca. 41 items.
Anceschi, Giovanni (philosophy professor at Univ. of Bologna),
1977-1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence mostly in German; includes one letter with small drawing (30.10.77), one poem and one drawing by Anceschi,
16 items total.
Andersen, Eric (Danish composer and Fluxus artist), ,
1974-1993 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding collaborations, works and personal matters; also video and many performance instructions, including
"Please Leave" with felt number, n.d., "Visitor's Walk" with photo and decals, n.d., "Sound Walk," ca. 1991, and note card
poems with photographs (first card "I would do what I did," n.d.; score for "The Untactics of Music," n.d.; plans for "Solplænen,"
1982, and "Marianne," 1986; one ink drawing; untitled Dick Higgins poem (3 Aug 1985); and announcements, printed ephemera
and copied articles; ca. 230 items.
Anderson, Beth (composer and editor of
Ear), , ,
1976-1978 1980 1989
Scope and Content Note
22 items.
Anderson, Laurie,
ca. 1977
Scope and Content Note
1 letter about her current artistic interests, 2 items.
Andrade, Gentil (Brazilian artist),
1984-1987
Scope and Content Note
includes one pencil drawing, letter with ink fish drawings and one photo of fish sculpture, 13 items.
Andre, Michael (
Unmuzzled Ox), , , ,
974 1976-1978 1981 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding publishing Dick Higgins works and Dick Higgins's 6 page translation of Daniel Spoerri's "Gastronoptikum,"
22 items.
Andrews, Bruce (poet and editor of
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E), , ,
1974-1979 1981 1983
Scope and Content Note
includes poetry typescripts, 35 items.
Angioni, Marcello (
Abracadabra), ,
1978-1980 1985
Scope and Content Note
includes poetry ms "Directions for Understanding the Universe," 23 items.
Apollo, Susan Jane (Dick Higgins's assistant),
1981-1982
Scope and Content Note
Higgins's assistant in the U.S., while he was in Berlin, 1981-1982. About 190 letters, most regarding business affairs.
Arcand, Pierre-André (Canadian visual poet),
1984-1989
Scope and Content Note
some printed ephemera associated with "La Machine à Mots," 27 items.
Arias-Mission, Alain, , , , ,
1978-1979 1984 1986 1989-1991 1993
Scope and Content Note
ca. 20 items.
Armleder, John (Ecart), , ,
1973-1980 1986 1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
includes correspondence regarding exhibitions of Dick Higgins work at Ecart and small book "Rych Dougal," ca. 40 items.
Assembling Foundation (arts organization which Dick Higgins was president), ,
1973 1983-1984
Scope and Content Note
ca. 38 items.
Ay-O (Fluxus artist), ,
1969-1975 1978
Scope and Content Note
includes 1 handwritten Ay-O reply with ink drawings, and 1 pencil drawing, 35 items.
Ashley, Mary (artist),
1974-1977
Scope and Content Note
includes 1 photocopied artpiece "Eat Your Totems," 12 items.
B., Mats (Rindeskär, Swedish critic), ,
1973-1984 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
includes correspondence regarding collaborations, theoretical discourses and personal matters; small Mats performance script,
2 Jan 1974; 5 photos, including photo postcard of Af Klintberg making "Strawberry Pictures," 1975; Swedish radio program transcript
of B. and Af Klintberg discussing Dick Higgins's work, 1976; Dick Higgins letter discussing Claes Oldenburg, 7 Nov 1977; metal
"postcard"; and many clippings; ca. 141 items.
Baecker, Inge (Galerie Inge Baecker, Bochum), , ,
1974-1981 1983 1985-1990
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence mostly in german regarding Dick Higgins retrospective Jan 1978 with 14 photographs of the exhibition, and sending
Dick Higgins work to the gallery, ca. 155 items.
Ballerini, Luigi (Professor of French and Italian literature at NYU),
1975-1979
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence about Gillespie Abraham Lincoln, 20 letters.
Ballif, Claude (French new musician),
1981-1983
Scope and Content Note
some correspondence in French, including one long letter by Ballif describing his work, and typescript translation of
Voyage de Mon Oreille, pp. 203-226, 15 items.
Banana, Anna (Productions; sound poet, also Bill Gaglione), , , ,
1974 1977-1981 1984 1987
Scope and Content Note
includes printed ephemera, 1 issue of
Artistamp News (vol 4, no. 1; 2 copies) and mail art stamps, ca. 50 items.
Barboza, Diego (Venezuelan performer),
1976-1980
Scope and Content Note
includes postcards, flyers and letters, 23 items.
Bard Catalogue Design ("Land Marks" exhibition announcement),
ca. 1984
Scope and Content Note
includes Dick Higgins's design for the catalogue.
Barnard, Geoffrey (member of Australian electronic music group Teletopa), , , , ,
1974 1976-1978 1980-1982 1986 1989
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with discussions of
Fantastic Architecture, and about Douglas Heubler and Filliou, 30 items.
Baroni, Vittore (Italian mail artist),
ca. 1987
Scope and Content Note
1 mail art piece.
Beaudoin, Kenneth,
1977
Scope and Content Note
2 items, including a collage.
Beers, John d',
1992
Scope and Content Note
contains a copy of "The Oral History of Anarchy."
Bell, Michael (visual poet), , , ,
1974-1979 1983 1986 1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
includes personal correspondence, with one long frank personal letter to Bell from Dick Higgins about Emmett and Eugene Williams,
and original Bell drawings on cardboard for Erotikon, ca. 40 items.
Below, Peter (Mixed Media & Edition; video artist),
1978
Scope and Content Note
5 letters, 1 postcard, mail art.
Belt, Mike (stamp artist and poet),
1976-1978
Scope and Content Note
includes 7 photographs by Belt, Dick Higgins's chronology of his life from 1966-1976 (30 Jun 1976), mailart and postcards,
ca. 56 items.
Benamou, Michel (Center for 20th Century Studies, University of Wisconsin),
1978-1983
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Dick Higgins guest artist appointment at the Center, 1977, and involvement in seminars on postmodern
art, ca. 73 items, 1976-1978 [bulk 1976]. Benjamin, Jerry (performance artist and poet): letters regarding Dick Higgins scripts
performed by other artists, including 1982 Los Angeles performance of "Stacked Deck" with many written descriptions of cast,
rehersals and stage set (designed by Kaprow), a drawing of the stage set (1981-1982) and photocopied contact sheets from the
performance, and one performed by Rachel Rosenthal, 1980; view of L.A. artists performance scene, 1978-1980; photo of Dick
Higgins and Benjamin by Judith Hoffberg, ca. 70 items.
Bennett, John M. (mail artist), , ,
1975-1982 1988-1989 1992
Scope and Content Note
includes mail art, printed ephemera and small books, ca. 57 items.
Berard, Paul (Dick Higgins friend),
1980-1991
Scope and Content Note
contains extensive personal correspondence.
Berard, Roger (Dick Higgins friend, collaborator and brother of Paul), , , ,
1979-1983 1985-1986 1988-1989 1991
Scope and Content Note
includes extensive correspondence regarding personal matters and collaborations, and 5 photographs from same series as
Of Celebration of Morning.
Bergé, Carol (writer and editor of
Center), , ,
1975-1980 1989 1992-1994
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding both of their writings,
Center and small press and writers news, ca. 90 items.
Berger, Ute and Michael (Harlekin Art),
1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence in German regarding Fluxus artists, 19 items.
Bernstein, Charles (editor of
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E), ,
1977-1979 1984
Scope and Content Note
includes correspondence regarding reviews of Dick Higgins's work and Dick Higgins reviews of others in
LANGUAGE and issue no. 7 of
Abacus, 21 items.
Bigelow, David (Dick Higgins's maternal uncle) and other Bigelows, , , , , , , , , ,
1953 1960 1967 1972 1974 1981-1983 1986 1988 1993 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
28 letters
Blaine, Julien (French artist and publisher of
Doc[k]s), , , ,
1976-1977 1981-1982 1984 1987-1989
Scope and Content Note
ca. 36 items.
Block, René (Galerie René Block), , , ,
1973-1974 1976 1978 1980-1989
Scope and Content Note
includes correspondence regarding exhibitions, some in German; Dick Higgins music "Statement," ca. 16 Sep 1981; jacket notes
for a Dick Higgins album, 17 Mar 1982; Dick HigginsDick Higgins Fluxus "Statement," 15 Jul 1982, for Wiesbaden Fluxus; ca.
118 items.
Bohn, Willard (scholar),
1990
Scope and Content Note
includes typescript of ms "The Dada Market," 1990 (see also Series V-B, Box 77, for pattern poetry correspondence and ms).
Bookslinger (small press distributor),
1978-1979
Scope and Content Note
ca. 84 items regarding book business.
Boyd, Don (teacher and sculptor), , , ,
1975-1977 1979-1984 1987-1988 1993
Scope and Content Note
includes correspondence about publishing and printing projects of Boyd's artists books; leather "piece" by Boyd for Dick Higgins,
1975; 3 mailart postcards, one oil on cardboard; short Dick Higgins descriptions of his biography and Intermedia, 14 Nov 1977;
and photographs of Boyd and his family; ca. 67 items.
Bradley, Tony (mail artist),
1977-1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and art pieces.
Brainard, Joe (poet and artist), , , ,
1970 1972 1976 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Brainard illustrations for Dick Higgins book, 10 items.
Braun, Herman (German collector of Fluxus/visual poetry), ,
1985-1988 1990-1991
Scope and Content Note
33 letters regarding the sale of Dick Higgins owned works and 2 photographs with George Brecht.
Brecht, George, ,
1960 1974-1980
Scope and Content Note
includes Something Else Press invoices/job orders; letters, mostly about Fluxus; and ms of "Innovational Research," ca. 35
items.
Breger, Udo (German visual poet), , ,
1973 1976-1979 1981
Scope and Content Note
includes 2 posters of "Sissor Bros. Warehouse," 18 items.
Brody, Hart (concrete poet),
1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
includes mail art piece, 4 items.
Brookmann, Dieter (German artist), , , ,
1982-1984 1986 1989-1990 1992-1993
Scope and Content Note
includes correspondence in German and ephemera, ca. 25 items.
Brown, Jean,
1974-1988
Scope and Content Note
ca.120 letters mostly regarding her archive.
Buczak, Brian (mail artist, died 1987), , ,
1977-1981 1984 1987-1989
Scope and Content Note
includes mail art, 1 drawing photocopied, and 1 collage, 26 items, 1977-1979, 1989. Burch, Charlton (publisher of Lightworks):
some correspondence about Fluxus issue of
Lightworks, ca. 33 letters, 1978-1981, 1984, 1987-1988.
C., Richard (Craven; museum curator and concept artist/visual poet), , ,
1976-1977 1980 1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
contains catalog of 1987 exhibition; 4 letters and 3 postcard words (visual poems); 9 items.
Cage, John, , ,
1967 1973 1976-1994
Scope and Content Note
extensive and substantial materials including "Diary" (Great Bear Pamplet, 1967, 2 copies): publicity, galley, and advance
orders for "Writing through Finnegans Wake," 1977-1978; Cage Reader correction, 1983; Dick Higgins project with Irmelin Lebeer
on Cage art criticism, 1986; correspondence, programs, printed ephemera for Cage at Wesleyan Symposium, Feb. 1988; Hörspiel
entitled "James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: Ein Alphabet," 1990; other items such as correspondence, clippings, articles,
photo, score, small book, programs announcements [bulk 1986-1990, n.d.]; and correspondence, clippings and copied articles
about Cage's death, 1993-1994; ca. 1/3 record storage box.
Calhoun School
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Jessica Higgins,
1975-1981
Campos, Augusto and Haroldo de (Brazilian visual poets), , , , ,
1972 1974 1977-1979 1983-1984 1991
Scope and Content Note
includes correspondence about pattern poems, copy of
Poesia Concreta in Brasile, 1991, articles and printed ephemera, ca. 30 items
Cantieni, Graham (Canadian poet and publisher of
10.5155.20: art comtemporain), ,
1982-1983 1991
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding visual poetry and 2 catalogs of Cantieni drawings and sculptures, ca. 35 items.
Caramello, Charles (critic and graduate student of literature), , ,
1977 1979-1980 1984
Scope and Content Note
letters about experimental writing and Caramello's writing of a book, 15 items.
Carrego, Ugo (Mercato del Sale), , ,
1974-1976 1978 1981
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding personal matters, writing and art, including Dick Higgins poem on actual art situation, 2/26/76,
15 items.
Carrington, Leonora,
1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
includes 2 versions of article Dick Higgins wrote on her paintings and Dick Higgins notes, ca. 33 items.
Carrión, Ulises (Dutch writer and performance artist, who runs Other Books and So),
1976-1978
Scope and Content Note
24 items.
Carruth, Hayden (poet),
1975-1981
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding personal matters and writings, including letter from Carruth where he talks of his love for poetry
and sorrow at not succeeding in music ("I loved music more than poetry") and his difficulty reading his poetry in public,
6 Dec 1980; and mss of sonnet hundred different ways (by Carruth?), 45 items.
Caruso, Luciano (Italian visual poet and scholar),
1976-1983
Scope and Content Note
includes 15 letters regarding visual poetry, printed ephemera; and 3 issues of
E/Mana/Azione (#4, 7, 8).
Case, Don (artist),
1976
Scope and Content Note
includes 4 photographs of Case's work and his artistic statement, 10 items.
CAYC (Centre de Arte y Comunicación), , , , ,
1973 1974-1975 [bulk] 1976-1977 1983 1993
Scope and Content Note
contains correspondence with Jorge Glusberg; and much printed ephemera, manifestos and flyers of events.
Chalupecký, Jindrich (Czech writer on Fluxus, Happenings and Duchamp), , , ,
1975 1977-1978 1982-1983 1986
Scope and Content Note
includes mss from Chalupecký entitled "Temps Zéro," 20 items.
Chambers, Bill,
1984
Scope and Content Note
includes postcards with poems and typed poems, 7 items.
Charles, Christophe (artist and musician) and Daniel (Christophe's father, art critic and philosopher), , , ,
1976-1982 1984-1987 1989 1993
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence mostly with Christophe, 1982, 1984-1986, 1989, 1993; some with Daniel, which includes offprints, 1976, 1984,
1987.
Chase, Gilbert (reviewer, music scholar and professor at Univ. of North Carolina), , , ,
1977-1978 1980-1982 [bulk] 1983 1992
Scope and Content Note
23 items.
Chiarucci, Henri (Enrico), , , ,
1976 1977 [bulk] 1978 1981
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding visual poetry, Bruno, friends, family and stamps, 26 letters.
Chicago Gig (sponsored by Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago),
Oct 23, 1967
Scope and Content Note
performance entitled "What Did You Bring: An Evening with John Cage, Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles," includes correspondence
with Jan van der Marck; 8 photographs with Dick Higgins, Knowles and Cage; notes; program scripts; etc.
Chicago, "In the Spirit of Fluxus," (Arts Club, Block Gallery, MCA,),
1993
Scope and Content Note
contains correspondence and announcements about exhibition and affiliated events. Also includes checklist of the exhibition.
Chiessi, Rosanna (director of Pari & Dispari),
1977-1983
Scope and Content Note
includes correspondence regarding sound and poetry festival, 1977 and legal dispute, 1982; posters; flyer; and other printed
ephemera; ca. 27 items.
Chin, Daryl (dramatist and film critic), , , ,
1975-1978 [bulk] 1979-1980 1982 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding art, video, drama, their own work, other artists and personal, ca. 81 items
Chopin, Henri, ,
1976 1979-1983 [bulk]
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence about sound poetry, ca. 54 items.
Christiansen, Henning, ,
1986 1992
Scope and Content Note
includes small round book and 1 photograph, 12 items.
Clarion Foundation,
1984
Scope and Content Note
proposal and notes from a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting new literature.
Cole, David,
1980
Scope and Content Note
book of visual poetry/puns.
Conz, Francesco (Italian art promoter and book publisher), , ,
1974 1977-1991 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
extensive correspondence regarding projects they worked on together, Dick Higgins's work, other artists, Conz's exhibits,
publishing, and collecting (Fluxus, other sound art, Lettrisme, etc.); also contains printed ephemera and an article about
Conz with typescript English translation (n.d.).
Cook, Elizabeth (painter),
1984-1985
Scope and Content Note
mostly printed ephemera and flyers, 10 items (see also Series V-B, Box 77).
Cook, Fred (performance poet),
1975
Scope and Content Note
includes 2 small books, 4 items.
Cook, Geoffrey (translater and poet at UC Berkeley),
1976-1993
Scope and Content Note
extensive correspondence contains discussions of language/translation (see also Series V-B, Box 77), poetry and Bruno in others'
work; 1978 correspondence mostly regarding poets and mail artists writing letters in support of jailed Uruguayan writers Clemente
Padín (see also Padín file, Box 25) and Jorge Caraballo; also printed ephemera, and small book.
Cooper, Michael (poet and priest, also correspondence from his mother and Janet), , ,
1974-1980 1982 1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
includes printed ephemera for readings and poems, and ca. 78 typescript poems of varing length "from Summer '78 to Summer
'79," ca. 131 items total.
Copenhagen Trip ("Excellent 1992"),
1992
Scope and Content Note
includes correspondence with Knud Pedersen and Eric Andersen, "Menus," and a report of the "A La Carte" rehearsal by Pedersen
with many color-photocopied photographs.
Corner, Philip (musician, Fluxus group and early Judson Dance Theatre), ,
1960-1989 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
includes extensive correspondence regarding Printed Editions, photos, printed ephemera, handwritten and typescript works,
performances and Printed Editions catalog.
COSMEP, ,
1974-1990 bulk 1975-1978
Scope and Content Note
contains correspondence about working of one of the most important small press organizations, difficulties of small press
editors and publishers and politics of small press world, 1974-1979, 1981, 1987-1988 [bulk 1975-1978]; many newsletters and
other notices, scattered #s 1974-1990.
Cowell, Sidney (Mrs. Henry Cowell),
1974-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Henry Cowell, composer, teacher of Dick Higgins, also includes printed ephemera for Cowell symposium,
1986, and information about Cowell book for SEP, "new music resources."
Crane, Mike (Director, Cal State U, Sacramento, Art Gallery where Dick Higgins had a show), , ,
1977-1979 1983-1984 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
includes printed ephemera and concrete poem from Crane.
Crozier, Robin, ,
1974-1977 1990
Scope and Content Note
8 letters, 2 notes, plus mail art. See also Robin Crozier collection in Special Collections accession no. 890146.
DAAD (Visting artists program grant in Germany which Dick Higgins received in 1974, 1981-1982), , ,
1973-1987 bulk 1974-1975 bulk 1980-1982
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence arranging Dick Higgins's stay in Germany, including l letter in which Dick Higgins describes his life, changes,
and his nervous breakdown (15 Dec 1974), plus misc. forms.
Dachy, Marc (publisher of Luna Park, and writer in Paris), , , , ,
1978 1980-1982 [bulk] 1986 1990-1993 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (see also Series V-B, Box 77).
Fondation Danae (artists' space in France),
1988-1989
Dartmouth gig,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Dick Higgins performances, lectures there, Dick Higgins notes, performance script, documentation.
David, Diana, ,
1980 [bulk] 1982-1985
Scope and Content Note
See also Gaudynski, Box 12.
Day, Peter,
1988-1990
Scope and Content Note
13 letters most regarding Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibit at Art Metropole, organized by Day.
De Appel (Amsterdam artists' space),
1979
de Aquino, Angelo (brazilian visual poet, performance artist, associated w/Central deArte, , Contemporaneo)
1973-1974 1979
Scope and Content Note
some correspondence about his situation in Brazil, printed ephemera for performances in which de Aquino participated.
Del Monaco, Alfredo (Venezuelan video artist and composer),
1978-1979
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence ca. 15 items.
Delahanty, Suzanne (director of Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase, NY), , , , ,
1980 1981-1982 [bulk] 1984 1988 1993
Scope and Content Note
mostly regarding Soundings exhibit.
Dencker, Klaus Peter (visual poet), , , ,
1977-1978 1983-1984 [bulk] 1986 1991
Scope and Content Note
includes artworks, printed ephemera, and photographs. See also Series V-B, Box 77.
Diacono, Mario, , ,
1977-1979 1983-1984 1986-1988
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding pattern poetry, 29 items.
Dienes, Sari,
ca. 1978-1988
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, photographs, and printed ephemera regarding Dienes and her work. (See also F. Conz file, Box 6, 1991 correspondence
for his essay on Dienes' work).
di Maggio, Gino (Italian Fluxus collector and publisher of Multhipla), ,
1974 1979-1988
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, photographs, and printed ephemera regarding Dienes and her work. (See also F. Conz file, Box 6, 1991 correspondence
for his essay on Dienes' work). Extensive correspondence.
Diotallevi, Marcello (Italian mail artist), ,
1983 1986
Djurić, Dubravka (Yugoslavian artist), , ,
1990 1992 1994
Scope and Content Note
14 items.
Doman, Katharine and Nicholas ("Ma," Dick Higgins mother & stepfather), ,
1970-1988 1991
Scope and Content Note
contains extensive correspondence 1958-1969 (see also Bigelow correspondence, Box 4), letters about Dick Higgins father's
death and estate, 1970-1988, undated and Dick Higgins mother's death and estate, 1991. Also includes photographs and original
Dick Higgins score.
Doria, Charles (poet & critic), ,
1978 1983-1991 [bulk]
Scope and Content Note
includes correspondence regarding Bruno book, small book and poetry mss. See also Series III, Box 63, for correspondence about
Bruno translation and Series V-B, Box 77, for pattern poetry correspondence.
Dreva, Jerry (performance artist),
1977-1979
Scope and Content Note
includes photographs.
Dreyfus, Charles,
1977-1982
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding pattern poetry, 17 letters.
Dupuy, Jean (intermedia artist), , , , , ,
1976 1979 1981-1984 1986 1988-1989 1991
Scope and Content Note
includes artwork and
Trou Verge, 37 items.
Eakins, Patricia (poet), , ,
1976 1988 1991
Scope and Content Note
18 items.
Edgerton, Sam (director of Williams College graduate program in the history of art),
1987-1991
Scope and Content Note
23 letters.
Ehrenburg, Felipe (Mexican visual artist), 1976-1983
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 items.
Elmslie, Kenward (poet),
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
17 letters.
Erlhoff, Michael (publisher of
Zweitschrift),
1976-1989
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 letters (see also Series V-B, Box 77).
Esser, Manfred (German artist/musician, producer of radio events),
1969-1982
Scope and Content Note
23 letters.
Essary, Loris (publisher of
Interstate), , ,
1977-1978 [bulk] 1979-1987 1992
Eriksson, Leif (Swedish book artist & visual poet, who runs Swedish Archive of Artists Books, and Wedgepress & Cheese), ,
1983-1984 1986-1987
Scope and Content Note
includes printed ephemera, posters, mail art, etc.
Espinosa, Cesar (Mexican visual poet and organizer),
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
includes printed ephemera.
Etlinger, Amelia (mail artist), ,
1976 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Letters and mail art fabric constructions.
European trips, , ,
1979 1981 1985
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence regarding trips: June 1979 (Dick Higgins notes and bio), 1981 (itinerary & correspondence, printed
emphemera, notes), 1985 (itinerary, corresp.).
Ex Libris,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding selling part of Dick Higgins library (especially Der Dada #2), most with Gotham Book Mart, Jaap Reitman
and Albert J. Phiebig.
Fairchild, Charles (composer),
1989
Scope and Content Note
4 letters, photocopied scores and cassette tape.
Fallon Tom (Charteng Workshop),
1981
Scope and Content Note
2 Fallon poems, brief but interesting discussion regarding definition and significance of Intermedia concept, ca. 6 letters.
Feelisch, Wolfgang (publisher), , ,
1976 1979
Scope and Content Note
3 letters (1976, 1979) and brochure of Fluxus objects from Verlag W. Feelisch.
Felluss gallery (Washington, D.C.), , ,
1978 1980
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and printed ephemera mostly regarding Fluxus Buffet des Chefs and other avant garde events at the "Art 1980,
New York, Oct 10-18."
Ferrando, Bartolomé (
Texto Poetico), ,
1988 1990-1991
Scope and Content Note
includes
Bartolomé Ferrando: propuestas poéticas, libros objecto, poesía proceso, 20 items.
Fetterman, Bill (writing dissertation on John Cage), ,
1987-1990 bulk 1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence (see also Series V, Boxes 73 and 77, for ms and letters about Amer. pattern poetry).
Filliou, Robert (and Marianne Filliou), , ,
1965 1967 1974-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes several long letters from Dick Higgins regarding his work and personal life, and discussion of other artists and
Filliou's work, ca. 75 letters and invoices.
Film-makers' Cooperative, , ,
1975-1976 1983-1984 1987-1993
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence and newsletters documenting financial problems, ca. 30 items.
Fine, Albert M.,
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
Framed piece with mail art, yarn and drawing on corrugated board. (Sent to conservation 28 Sep 1994).
"Finland gig,"
June 1982
Scope and Content Note
Programs, photos, notes regarding "Higgins-Berard concert", 7 items.
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, , , , ,
1972 1974-1979 1980-1982 1986 1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence mostly about one anothers work, also postcards, posters and other printed ephemera from Finlay.
Flaherty, Joe (Book Bus Project, director of Writers and Books), , , ,
1976-1977 1980-1989 1990 1992
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence mostly regarding small press distribution, ca. 45 letters.
Fleiss, Marcel (Galerie )
1988-1992
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding sale of Dick Higgins and others work to Fleiss' gallery, and fluxus and happenings exhibit in Paris
(1989).
Fluxus,
1989
Scope and Content Note
Announcements, printed ephemera for exhibits, events; photocopies and tearsheets of reviews, most of Fluxus exhibit at MOMA,
1989. (See also folders of individual artists and gigs.)
Flynt, Henry,
1976-1990
Scope and Content Note
6 letters, printed emphemera and 5 mss by Flynt.
Fontana, Giovanni, , ,
1983 1985-1986 1988-1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes sound poem and printed ephemera.
Ford, Charles Henri, , ,
1976-1979 1980 1982
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and printed ephemera, ca. 35 items.
Foster, Stephen (DADA and Research Archive, U of Iowa),
1979-1988
Scope and Content Note
corresp regarding Foster's symposioum on "Avant-Garde and the Text. . ." (1987).
Fox, Hugh (aka his alter ego, Connie Fox), , , ,
1974-1986 1988 n.d. bulk 1974-1982
Scope and Content Note
Numerous letters, also Fox's checklist of Something Else Press publications; (for more regarding Something Else Press, see
also Dick Higgins's letter to Len Fulton, 13 June 1974; and material in Peter Frank, Ken Friedman files).
Francis, Harley, ,
1978 1980
Scope and Content Note
5 items regarding stamp/mail art ("Tristan Local Post" and "Terra Candella").
Frank, Peter, ,
1976-1982 1985-1990
Scope and Content Note
Most of the correspondence regards book Frank did on Dick Higgins and Something Else Press; Frank's notes, checklist, part
of ms; Frank ms for book on Something Else Press; 3 large folders.
"Frankfurt gig,"
Feb 1982
Scope and Content Note
printed ephemera, Dick Higgins notes regarding performance.
Franklin Furnace (artists space in NYC, Dick Higgins was a Board member, 1988),
1977-1993
Scope and Content Note
Includes printed ephemera, some correspondence regarding Dick Higgins's exhibit of Something Else Press books, Mar 6, 1979,
and Dick Higgins performance at Franklin Furnace. Also in this file an exhibition Dick Higgins organized at C-space, NYC,
same time. (See also Martha Wilson file, Box 34.)
Freifeld, Larry and Lois (poets, aka Freefield), , , , ,
1974-1978 1980-1983 1985 1989 1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes extensive personal correspondence, small poetry books, typescript of play.
Friedman, Ken
Scope and Content Note
Includes extensive correspondence about Fluxus people and events, Friedman's Fluxnews and other Fluxus printed ephemera (see
Box 12 for mss and more).
Friedman, Ken,
1974-1993
Scope and Content Note
Folder of Friedman's works in mss regarding Fluxus (1989), a folder with a mss by Friedman, a fluxus chronology entitled "Explaining
Fluxus," ms by Peter Frank on Ken Friedman, and unfinished essay on Dick Higgins; ca. 1/3 record storage box total.
Friedman, Martin (Walker Art Center), ,
1982 1983
Scope and Content Note
2 letters.
Frye, Northrop (literary critic),
1975-1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Higgins's work, which he had sent to Frye for comments, 11 letters.
Futurism
Scope and Content Note
2 brochures for futurist events, exhibitions.
Gabler, Herman (visual & text artist), , ,
1982 1984 1986-1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and printed ephemera.
Gaglione, Bill, ,
1977-1978 1993
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, most about publishing a book of visual poems, (See also Anna Banana, Box 2.)
Gajewski, Henryk (Polish avant garde artist, editor
Art Text, Warsaw),
1972-1982
Scope and Content Note
Some of the correspondence discusses the political situation in Poland in a personal, but careful way.
Garland, Peter (Soundings Press; composer, publisher of new music), , , , ,
1974 1976-1977 1981 1983 bulk 1977
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Garnier, Pierre (French concrete poet)
Scope and Content Note
10 items.
Gaudynski, Thomas, also Paul Gaudynski and Diana David (new music/fluxus enthusiasts/musicians in Wisconsin),
1978-1982
Scope and Content Note
ca. 45 items.
Gerlovina, Rimma and Valleri (
Collective Farm)
Scope and Content Note
Includes one letter regarding their plans to publish an issue of
Collective Farm about Fluxus and Jean Brown (see also accn. no. 890164).
Getty Center, , ,
1987 1989 1991-1993
Scope and Content Note
Substantial correspondence about acquisition and processing of archive and performances at the book conference, 1992, and
"Rolywholyover," 1993.
Gibbs, Michael (
Kontexts, Amsterdam),
1976-1979
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and ephemera, 11 items.
Giboda, Igor (aka Gibodada, USSR artist/composer), ,
1983 1985
Scope and Content Note
3 letters 1983, musical composition for viola signed and dated 1985 (paint, ink and marker on cardboard).
Gillespie, Abraham Lincoln
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (about this mysterious, little known artist, who is of great interest to Dick Higgins and others) with Charles
Amirkhanian, Katherine Lockwood-Vogel (Princeton Spec. Coll.), etc.
Gomringer, Eugen, ,
1978 1988
Scope and Content Note
Specs and quote for Something Else Press edition of Gomringer's Book of the Hours, 4 letters.
Goodrich, Julian (attorney, Patterson, Gibson, Noble and Brownell)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Something Else Press bankruptcy (see also Box 31 Something Else Press correspondence and Series III,
Box 42).
Gordon, Coco (paper artist, Watermark Press),
1974-1990
Scope and Content Note
Gifts, constructed pieces, slides, letters with sticks and leaves, 1974-1990.
Gordon, Gould & Sherman (CPA firm), ,
1972-1976 bulk 1973-1974
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Dick Higgins taxes, including information about his financial situation.
Gorewitz, Ruben, , ,
1975-1984 1986 1989-1992
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Higgins's taxes and other business.
Graffi, Milli (Italian performer/poet),
1974-1980
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Griffing, Tom (T M Griffing Assoc, Inc, Financial Mgmt Services), ,
1970-1982 1984-1990
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and other papers regarding Dick Higgins's financial affairs, including Griffing letter to Higgins, (6 Sept
1972), about Higgins pouring money into Something Else Press against Griffing's advice, 6 folders (see also Series IV, Box
66).
Grigely, Joseph (scholar),
1986
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence includes fiery exchanges between Dick Higgins and Ann Hull about proposed panal at the MLA conference on intermedia,
sound/pattern poetry.
Groh, Klaus (German artist/writer), , , , 1 ,
1974-1978 1980 1982 984-1985 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Gruntz, George (Swiss musician), ,
1972 1973-1975
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding a jazz opera with lyrics by Higgins.
Hall, Donald (poet),
1978-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Hall's writing and others, and Hall's publishing program for U of Michigan Press.
HallWalls (Buffalo artist's space), ,
1979 1989-1991
Scope and Content Note
9 items.
"Hamburg gig,"
June 1982
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Boris Nieslony at Kunstlerhaus Hamburg.
Hamilton, Richard,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard from Hamilton to Dick Higgins regarding Niland B. Mortimer.
Hansen, Al, , ,
1976 1978-1981 1983-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Fluxus artists and also a Dick Higgins letter, which outlines in detail
Of Celebration of Morning, 10 Dec 1979; ca. 30 items.
Happenings Tape, ,
1960 ca. 1967
Scope and Content Note
made by Dick Higgins 1960 (with Oldenburg, Al Hansen, Dine, Kaprow, Robert Whitman, at Judson Church), and correspondence
ca. 1967.
Harrison, Lou (composer), , , , ,
1977 1981-1983 1985 1987 1993
Scope and Content Note
programs, posters, etc., 19 items.
"Hartford gig" (at Real Art Ways)
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence.
Harvey, Emily (NYC gallery where Dick Higgins exhibited), , , ,
1982 1986-1992 n.d. bulk 1988-1992
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence about business matters and promotion of Higgins's work.
Haskell, Barbara (curator, Whitney Museum)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence describing her plans and concept of Blam! exhibition and her plan to include a program of Fluxus events, 4
letters.
Hassan, Ihab (critic, teacher), , , ,
1976-1980 1987 n.d. bulk 1976-1978
Scope and Content Note
See also MLA file, Box 22, and Series V-B, Box 77.
Hatherly, Ana (Portuguese scholar writing book on Portuguese visual poetry), , ,
1977-1979 1982-1984 1985-1991
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence regarding pattern/visual poetry, 2 folders (see also Series V-B, Box 77).
Hecht, David (artist),
1982-1983
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding theoretical discussions of Intermedia and what it is, ca. 20 letters.
Heidsieck, Bernard (French sound poet), ,
1976-1977 1984
Scope and Content Note
includes l letter (23 Feb 1977), describing great excitement in Paris over opening of Centre Beaubourg museum, ca. 15 letters.
Hejinian, Lyn (language poet, small press publisher of Tuumba Press), , ,
1976-1978 1984 1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding poetry, her press, other poets and personal, ca. 38 letters.
Held, Jon, Jr., , ,
1978-1980 bulk 1979-1980 1990
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Fluxus and visual poetry, ca. 37 letters.
Hendricks, Geoffrey, , ,
1967 1973-1991 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Extensive Fluxus correspondence, printed ephemera and some photos, 4 folders.
Hendricks, Jon (curator of Silverman Collection) and other Hendricks family members, 1975-1984, 1986-1988
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding exhibits at Franklin Furnace, especially "The page as alternative space," Dec 1980, curated by Jon
Hendricks & Barbara Moore.
Hennix, Christer (prof of math/computers, artist/performer/poet), ,
1982-1984 1988-1991
Scope and Content Note
Includes ms of poetry writings about No dramas.
Herbert, John (The Drawing Legion, art & performance company/space in Iowa City), ,
1978-1981 1983-1985
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and printed ephemera.
Herman, Jan (ran Something Else Press after Dick Higgins left), ,
bulk 1974-1978 1983
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings. For the dissolution of Something Else Press, see especially letters, 13 Dec 1974, from Herman to Dick
Higgins, and 10 Dec 1974, from Dick Higgins to Herman.
Hickory Ridge Reunion, ,
1983-1984 bulk 1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence to and from various schoolmates from Higgins's primary school, ca. 20 letters.
Higgins, Bradley (Dick Higgins's paternal uncle), ,
1971-1976 1983
Scope and Content Note
Personal, family papers and correspondence.
Higgins, Carter C. (Dick Higgins's father), ,
1959 1965-1968
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and legal papers.
Higgins, Carter C.
Scope and Content Note
Writings, ms, clippings, photographs, and some correspondence.
Higgins, Carter & Mary (Dick Higgins's father & stepmother, "Dad" and "Mary"), ,
1959-1961 1962-1964
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (CC Higgins died 1964), 2 folders.
Higgins, Mary (Dick Higgins's stepmother),
1964-1966
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, photographs. See Dick Higgins letter to her about his father, 26 Aug 1964.
Higgins, Dick,
1968-1973
Scope and Content Note
Extensive material includes correspondence and papers for 1970 divorce from Alison Knowles; miscellaneous correspondence and
information on his property in Vermont; programs of Dick Higgins events and performances; and photographs.
Higgins, Hannah & Jessica (Dick Higgins's and Alison Knowles's twin daughters), ,
1983-1991 some 1978
Scope and Content Note
Photographs, correspondence, letters between Dick Higgins and his daughters.
JW & CC Higgins Foundation,
1972-1975
Scope and Content Note
Papers regarding account and dispursal of funds.
Higgins, Mark (Dick Higgins's brother), ,
1940-1960 bulk 1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding his death, mss, clippings. One letter from Dick Higgins to Mark, 1960, and a Dick Higgins ms dedicated
to his brother, "Joe the Soldier."
Higgins, Rindie (Dick Higgins's cousin),
1977-1978
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter with a family tree drawn by Dick Higgins, 3 items.
High Performance,
1978-1983
Scope and Content Note
8 letters regarding performance artists (see also Linda Burnham, Box 5).
Hoffberg, Judith (collector of mail art, publisher of
Umbrella, , 1977-1992
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence. [Note: Judith Hoffberg collection now at UCLA, Special Collections.]
Hogan, Matthew (librarian and afficcionado of visual poetry), ,
1983 1986-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence regarding concrete poetry exhibition he curated at Franklin Furnace (1986).
Houchard, Jean-Louis (composer),
1985-1986
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding music festival, ca. 15 letters.
Hovdenakk, Per (curator of Henie Onstad Museum), , , ,
1978-1980 1982-1983 1986 1988-1992
Scope and Content Note
32 letters, most about Fluxus.
Huber, Joseph W. (artist), , , , ,
1981 1983 1986 1989 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Includes mail art, 27 items.
L'Humidite
Scope and Content Note
See file for Jean-Francois Bory.
Hundertmark, Armin (publisher of Ausgabe), ,
1976-1977 1985
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and printed ephemera, ca. 50 items.
Hungary project (Gábor Tóth), , , , , ,
1981 1983 1986 1988 1989 bulk 1986-1989
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding performing.
Hutchins, Alice (Fluxus artist), , , , , ,
1969 1971-1974 1976-1978 1981-1982 1986 1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographs of a Hutchins piece and announcements for her presentation at the Something Else Gallery, NYC, ca. 30
items.
Hutchins, Holly (aka Hutchins-Puechavy, artist),
1970-1976
Scope and Content Note
23 items.
Iimura, Taka (video artist),
1979-1980
Scope and Content Note
6 items.
"The Image of Thinking in Visual Poetry" (proposed Guggenheim exhibition, but never executed),
1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Susan B. Hirschfeld, Dietrich Mahlow and Thomas Krens, ca. 50 items (see also Mahlow file, Box 21).
Inkblot,
1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Theo Green.
IRS Audit,
1976-1979
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence about Higgins's tax audit, 5 folders.
Jacuzio, Jerry (holographer),
1978
Scope and Content Note
Includes mail art postcard.
James, Phil (poet),
1983
Scope and Content Note
3 letters, 1 ms.
Jaschke, Gerhard (Austrian poet, publisher of
Freibord), ,
1982 1986-1993
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, also includes postcards, ephemera, and photographs, ca. 70 items.
Johnson, Ray, , ,
ca. 1965 1969-1970 1975-1992
Scope and Content Note
Contains personal correspondence, original drawings and watercolors by Johnson, and photocopied drawings and poems, and a
heavily annotated letter by Bill Wilson to
Arts magazine about Tillim's article "The Mythical History of Modern Art," ca. 100 items.
Johnson, Tom (composer), 1975-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes one handwritten sheet of an original score, ca. 17 items.
Johnston, John (Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates),
1965-1974
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence about financial matters.
Jones, Christine (Austrian singer and arts organizer), ,
1978-1993 bulk 1984-1993
Scope and Content Note
Much personal correspondence, includes photographs, announcements, and issue of
Creativ (Apr 1992), ca. 100 items.
Jones, Joe (composer),
1976-1990
Scope and Content Note
ca. 20 items.
Juin, Jacques (French artist, aka Llys Dana), ,
1980-1985 1991
Scope and Content Note
ca. 45 items.
Jurkiewicz, Zdzislaw (artist),
1976-1978
Scope and Content Note
includes two original paper cutouts, ca. 17 items.
Kamin, Franz (poet),
1979
Scope and Content Note
Includes printed copy of the poem "Rugugmool" with many annotations by the artist and 5 exhibition invitations, one with pop-ups,
and another made of clear transparency, 6 items.
Kaprow, Allan,
1967-1987
Scope and Content Note
Most letters to Kaprow, two responses from the artist, ca. 35 items.
Kasemets, Udo (Canadian composer),
1974
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding trading Kasemets's "Wordmusic/Interface," ca. 10 items.
Kellein, Thomas (Director Archive Sohm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart),
1983-1991
Scope and Content Note
ca. 40 items.
Kelly, Robert (Bard College),
1976-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes poetry mss, ca. 40 items (see also Series III, Box 57, "Sounds Like" project).
Kempton, Karl (visual poet, editor of Kaldron),
1977-1991
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence about visual poetry (see interesting letter from Kempton, 21 Feb 1978, and Dick Higgins's response, 25 Feb
1978, for dialogue on imperialism in visual poetry), projects and personal, ca. 70 items.
The Kitchen, ,
1978-1983 bulk 1980
Scope and Content Note
Most correspondence with music director Rhys Chatham regarding 1980 Dick Higgins's performance there, ca. 50 items.
Klüver, Billy, ,
1978 1991
Scope and Content Note
6 items.
Knízák, Milán, ,
1980 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Includes an edition of "Roten Handschuh" (n.d.), correspondence dated 1980.
Knowles, Alison,
1973-1991
Scope and Content Note
Extensive intimate personal correspondence regarding family matters, finances, living arrangements, and artistic projects;
also correspondence regarding "Book of Bean" installation, 1981-1982, correspondence and negatives relating to Knowles "Finger
Book," 1986-1987, ms for "North Water Song: A Hörspiel for John Cage," 1987, notes for "Shoemakers Assistant," 1982, and many
photos. Other material includes three original mail art postcards by Hans Jörg Köhler, 1973-1983 (see Box 19 for 1984-1991),
ca. 1/2 record storage box total.
Knowles, Alison,
1984-1993
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Köln concert,
1981-1982
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence primarily with Walter Zimmerman, ca. 20 items.
Köln Fluxus ("Fluxus Virus"),
1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes instructions for "Intermedial Object #1" and copy of long letter from Vautier to Evelyn Weiss about artists not receiving
money for their participation, 28 Dec 1992, ca. 37 items.
Köhler, Hans-Jörg (East German artist),
1981-1983
Scope and Content Note
ca. 27 letters in German, (see also Knowles correspondence for mail art).
Køpcke, Arthur (Addi, Fluxus artist),
1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes two typed ms pages by Dick Higgins of his rembrances of Køpcke upon his death.
Korrell, Karen (artist), ,
1975-1980 1983
Scope and Content Note
Includes mail art and original drawings, 14 items.
Kostelanetz, Richard (writer and poet),
1973-1993
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence relating to Dick Higgins's and Kostelanetz's collaborations, critiques of each others writing, and
personal matters; includes publishing agreements for "Experimental Essays," 1973, and Breakthrough Fictioneers," 1972, and
Something Else Press correspondence relating to both publications; typescripts and photocopies with Dick Higgins annotations
of Kostelanetz essays and poems; issue of
American Book Review (May-Jun 1986); and correspondence regarding Assembling Press, ca. 1/2 record storage box.
Kotik, Petr (Director of SEM Ensemble),
1988-1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence relating to Dick Higgins's SEM Ensemble appearance, 1990, a typescript of Knowles and Yasunao Tone's
Hörspiel "Setsubun," and printed ephemera, ca. 22 items.
Koz_owski, Jaros_aw (Polish artist),
1976-1988
Scope and Content Note
Three items including an edition of
Blue Time.
Kroesen, Jill (lyricist),
1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes transparency of lyrics for Erotikon, 2 items.
Kruchkow, Diane (editor of Stony Hills), , , ,
bulk 1975-1977 1979-1980 1982-1984 1989
Scope and Content Note
ca. 45 items.
Labelle-Rojoux, Arnaud (French poet),
1979-1984
Scope and Content Note
ca. 22 items.
La Voie, Steven (Famous/Famous Last Words),
1976-1978
Scope and Content Note
18 items.
Laxson, Ruth (artists' book maker), , ,
1983-1984 1987 1989-1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes original drawing and mail art, ca. 30 items.
Leaman, Michael (publisher of Reaktion), ,
1983 1985
Scope and Content Note
7 letters.
Lebel, Jean-Jacques, ,
1981-1984 1993
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding planned Fluxus catalog by Lebel and participation in Polyphonix, ca. 30 items.
Loeffler, Carl (Director of La Mamelle Arts Center and editor of Contemporary Arts Press),
1976-1980
Scope and Content Note
ca. 35 items.
Lombardi, Daniele (Italian pianist and editor),
1980-1984
Scope and Content Note
Includes three catalogs of Lombardi's work, ca. 30 items.
Lubic, Matt (writer),
1976-1977
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 items.
Lurie, Toby (poet),
1975-1981
Scope and Content Note
Includes original typescripted pattern poem for Dick Higgins, ca. 57 items.
MacClennan, Toby (writer and performance artist),
1976-1982
Scope and Content Note
Includes performance script with annotations by MacClennan and printed ephemera, ca. 40 items.
Maciunas, George,
1974-1978
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 items.
Mac Low, Jackson (poet, composer, performance artist),
1975-1986
Scope and Content Note
Includes dialogue about Dick Higgins's use of "exemplificative" categories (1976), correspondence regarding Unpublished/Printed
Editions, and ms for "Phone Poems." Also contains performance instructions for "Musicwords," "A Vocabulary Gatha for Pete
Rose," and "A Notated Vocabulary for Eve Rosenthal," all signed and dated by the artist, ca. 130 items.
Mahlow, Dietrich (German art historian and curator),
1984-1993
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence, ca. 150 items.
Mallander, J.O. (Finnish artist),
1981-1984
Scope and Content Note
Includes printed ephemera and a photograph of "To the Pure Land III," 1984, ca. 24 items.
Malmö Kunsthall, Sweden,
1984
Scope and Content Note
Installation information on Dick Higgins's work "Glue Mama's Finest Tasties" for Food Art exhibition.
Margins,
1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Tom Montag, most regarding reviews submitted by Dick Higgins, also one long letter from Montag about Higgins's
proposed legislation for literature (i.e. non-profit status) dated 17 Feb 1976, ca. 40 letters.
Martel, Richard (Canadian artist), ,
1984-1990 1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes posters and printed ephemera, ca. 55 items.
Mayer, Hansjörg (publisher), , , , ,
1970 1974-1978 1980 1983 1986
Scope and Content Note
ca. 32 items.
Mayer, Peter (British concrete poet), , , , and
1977-1978 1982-1985 1989 bulk 1977-1978 bulk 1983-1984
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence regarding pattern poetry's history, with bibliographies (see also Series V-B, Box 78).
McBride, Dick (McBride Brothers & Broadly Ltd.),
1978-1983
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence about book distribution.
McBride, Mac (Dick Higgins's caretaker),
1981-1984
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence about personal and home related matters.
McCaffery, Steve (Canadian performance artist and sound poet), , ,
1976-1981 1983-1990 1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes original and copied poems by McCaffery, substantial correspondence about poetry, semiotics and aesthetics (see especially
30 Sep 1977 McCaffery letter and Dick Higgins response about "Paris Mafia" and Dick Higgins letter 5 Nov 1977 which describes
Giordano Bruno's processes in a "flow chart subsumption"); with copy of
Every way Oakly: homolinguistic translations of gertrude stein's Tender Buttons, ca. 160 items.
McCallion, Barry (artist and writer), ,
1973-1981 1985
Scope and Content Note
ca. 25 items.
McCarthy, Mary-Sue, , , ,
1980-1982 1984-1985 1987 1990
Scope and Content Note
Personal correspondence, 25 letters.
McPherson, Bruce (publisher of Treacle Press),
1976-1991
Scope and Content Note
ca. 71 letters most relating to book business.
Melnick, David
Scope and Content Note
Includes ms and printed copy of
Men in Aida.
Mew, Tommy (Conceptual artist and poet), , ,
1977-1980 1982-1984 1986-1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes extensive personal correspondence and some about Fluxus, and printed ephemera, ca. 100 items.
Meyer, Tom (writer, see also Jonathan Williams),
1974-1982
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence regarding Meyer's research on Stefan George, ca. 45 items.
Mid-Hudson Arts and Science Center (MASC),
1988-1992
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence about fundraising, printed ephemera and announcements, ca. 35 items.
Miller, Eugene (editor of
New Lazarus Review), , ,
bulk 1978-1980 1985 1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes poetry typescripts and mail art, ca. 21 items.
Miller, Stephen Paul (poet),
1977-1978
Scope and Content Note
Includes poetry typescripts, 11 items.
Milman, Estera (Alternative Traditions, Univ. of Iowa), , ,
1985 1987-1988 1990-1991
Scope and Content Note
12 letters.
Milwaukee (Misreading and Misinterpretation course taught by Dick Higgins at the University of Wisconsin),
1976-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes course syllabus, organizational material, final examination questions and activities report.
Minarelli, Enzo (Italian sound poet),
1986-1991
Scope and Content Note
35 items.
Modern Languages Association (MLA), ,
1977-1978 1994
Scope and Content Note
Material relating to the forum on "The Question of Postmodernism," includes correspondence with Ihab Hassam, ca. 40 items.
Monk, Meredith, , , ,
1975-1976 1981 1985 1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
Contains primarily printed ephemera and announcements, with 5 letters and postcards.
"Montreal gig,"
1967
Scope and Content Note
Contains an original Dick Higgins drawing in ballpoint ink for "Some Graphis Mirrors" program.
Moore, Barbara and Peter (Fluxus artists; Barbara, editor of Reflux Editions), ,
1983 1985-1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes two Dick Higgins letters which clarify his and Maciunas breakup over the founding of Something Else Press, and mail
art, ca. 25 items.
Moran, Robert (composer), , ,
1975-1978 1983 bulk 1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes intimate personal correspondence, material related to the Dick Higgins sale of six Vostell works, and a one act play
by Moran written for Dick Higgins, ca. 53 items.
Morawski, Stefan (Polish art historian),
1986-1987
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence relating to theoretical concepts of Dick Higgins's work, ca. 21 items.
Morgan, Robert C. (art critic and historian), , , ,
1978 1984 1986-1989 bulk 1986-1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes an edition of "Progress Back Stroke" from Morgan's Swim Texts, and printed ephemera, ca. 40 items.
Morra, Giuseppe, ,
1976-1977 1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence regarding the ceramics for "the ephitaphs," 25 letters.
Morris, Michael (Canadian video artist and photographer), , ,
1975-1987 1990 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Extensive intimate personal correspondence, 2 photographs, mail art, mini text for Erotikon, 16 May 1976, Dick Higgins's 4
page letter regarding the film "Taxi zum KLO," Aug 24,1981, and original watercolor x-mas card, n.d., ca. 87 items.
Morrow, Charles (composer, Art Director of New Wilderness Foundation [see also New Wilderness Foundation]), ,
1974-1975 1977-1986
Scope and Content Note
Includes corresp regarding personal, financial and book business matters, 8 photographs of "Heavyweight Sound Fight," and
some production material for
Vision Singer & Witness, ca. 190 items total.
Morse, R.C. (editor of
The Modularist Review),
1975-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes a dialogue about the theoretical aspects of "modularism," 1976, and poetry typescripts, ca. 22 items.
Myers, George, Jr. (writer and publisher of
Cumberland Journal),
1973-1989
Scope and Content Note
ca. 80 items.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Rolywholyover a circus),
1991-1993
Scope and Content Note
Organizational material and correspondence with Julie Lazar and other MOCA staff regarding this exhibit.
Name, Billy (Andy Warhol's Factory manager, née Billy Linich), ,
1988-1989 1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes some letters with short concrete poems ca. 28 items.
Nannucci, Maurizio (Zona Archives, editor of Mèla), ,
1977 1979-1984
Scope and Content Note
Much correspondence about publication projects, ca. 85 items.
Nations, Opal (British writer, poet, artist and publisher of Strange Faeces Press), ,
1976-1982 1984-1987
Scope and Content Note
Extensive personal correspondence, includes ca. 35 poetry and reworked text typescripts of various lengths (ca. late 1970s),
book, mail art, printed ephemera, original drawings by Nations and a photograph of Dick Higgins with accompanying text by
Nations, ca. 272 items.
NESPA (New England Small Press Assn.),
1974-1976
Scope and Content Note
Newsletters, articles of organization, membership lists, etc.
New Means Foundation, ,
1969-1970 1972-1973
Scope and Content Note
Tax exempt application, by-laws and other reorganization papers.
New Museum show (Fluxattitudes), 1992
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence documenting various organizational problems, especially the artists' dismay that the Museum insured their works
at 0 value.
New York Mycological Society (organized by Cage),
1963-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes 14 photographs of a mushroom hunt with Cage, schedules of events, articles, checklists of mushroom sightings, etc.
New York University,
1974-1979
Scope and Content Note
Information on Ph.D. program and Dick Higgins's Ph.D. comprehensive exams, and other misc. paperwork.
Niccolai, Giulia (Italian poet), , ,
1977-1978 1981 1984-1985
Scope and Content Note
16 letters.
Nichol, bp (Barry; Canadian sound poet), ,
1977-1979 1986-1987
Scope and Content Note
Includes Dick Higgins's translation of Nichol poetry text, and printed ephemera, ca. 31 items.
Null, Elizabeth (Dick Higgins's sister), ,
1969-1970 1974-1979
Scope and Content Note
31 items.
Nurenberg, Phil (writer, photographer, painter), , , ,
1980-1982 1984-1985 1987-1989 1993
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographs of Dick Higgins by Nurenberg taken during a 1984 interview and some correspondence relating to Nurenberg's
interview with Bern Porter, ca. 88 items (see also Porter, Box 26).
Ohff, Heinz (Berlin art critic), ,
1976-1977 1981
Scope and Content Note
9 items.
Oldenburg, Claes, ,
1966-1967 1981
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and invoices regarding "The store" book, and sale of 3 Oldenburg works owned by Dick Higgins.
Oliveros, Pauline (composer),
1974-1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence regarding personal matters, book business (mostly about
Software for the People), printed ephemera and performance script of "Portrait of Richard C. Higgins," 1988. Also includes correspondence, board
of trustees meeting notes, budget reports and announcements for the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, ca. 1/3 record storage box.
Olmsted, Robert (editor of Northwoods Press),
1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
9 letters which document tension between Olmsted and Dick Higgins on how a small press should be run.
Oren, Michele (art historian), , , ,
1978-1979 1983 1986 1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes one letter by Dick Higgins clarifying his problems with Maciunas in 1965 (22 Aug 1979), ca. 25 items.
Padín, Clemente (Uruguan writer), ,
1976-1978 1982-1983
Scope and Content Note
Includes theoretical dialogues on semiotics and the revolutionary aspects of art, and some about his imprisonment, ca. 35
items.
Pagillo, Joseph (poet),
1986
Scope and Content Note
includes ms, 7 items.
Paik, Nam June, , , ,
1977 1981-1984 1990 1993
Scope and Content Note
Announcements and articles, 7 items.
Palazzoli, Daniela (Italian critic),
1973-1974
Scope and Content Note
10 letters, including Dick Higgins's explication of Fluxus.
Palmisano, Joseph (attorney),
1975-1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence about Something Else Press bankruptcy.
Partum, Andrzej (Bureau de la Poesie, Poland), ,
1974-1975 1977-1979
Scope and Content Note
ca. 20 items.
Patterson, Ben, , ,
1966 1968-1969 1975-1977
Scope and Content Note
ca. 10 items.
Pedersen, Knud (Danish Fluxus artist, writer and director of Kunstbiblioteket), ,
1979-1980 1982-1993
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence about fluxus artists and events, especially "Excellent 1992" and "A La Carte" (for more see Copenhagen
trip 1992), each others work and some about personal matters, ca. 117 letters.
Peters, Robert (poet and performance artist), ,
1983-1989 1991-1993
Scope and Content Note
Extensive intimate personal correspondence and letters documenting, among other things, theoretical concepts of their writings
and Peters's performance works. Also contains material relating to Peters's "The Blood Countess," including ms typescript
with annotations entitled "Countess E. Bathory," performance script and three photographs of Peters as the "The Blood Countess"
(ca. 1985). Other items includes 4 photographs of Peters in costume (1988) and poetry typescripts with annotations, and
Electrum no. 37 (Fall 1985), ca. 125 items total.
Petkus, Janetta (wrote a dissertation on Cage),
1983-1984
Scope and Content Note
6 letters about Cage and Fluxus.
Phillips, Michael Joseph (concrete poet), , ,
1974 1977-1986 1988-1990
Scope and Content Note
Personal correspondence, with printed ephemera, poetry ms, and
35 Boogie Woogie Haiku (1980), ca. 105 items.
Pierssens, Michael (Sub Stance),
1980
Scope and Content Note
8 letters.
Pittore, Carlo (Italian artist), , ,
1979 1982-1984 1994
Scope and Content Note
Primarily mail art, 16 items (see also Bern Porter file, Box 26, for printed ephemera).
Politi, Giancarlo (publisher of Art Diary), , ,
1977-1979 1981 1989
Scope and Content Note
9 items.
Polkinhorn, Harry (writer, expert in visual poetry and Latin American avant-garde),
1986-1990
Scope and Content Note
Mss, correspondence containing theoretical discourses and progress reports of each other's works, ca. 100 items.
Poniz, Denis (Slovenian poet and scholar of visual poetry),
1977-1980
Scope and Content Note
15 items (see also Series V-B, Box 78).
Porter, Bern (writer, poet, artist), , , , , ,
1971-1972 1974-1978 1980-1981 1989 1992 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding book business and some personal matters, ms of Phil Nurenberg interview with Porter (see also Nurenberg,
Box 25) and Porter's Erotikon contribution. Also includes much printed ephemera by Carlo Pittore, including 4 sheets of "Post
Me Commemorative Stamp Series," and
Me Too II no.1, ca. 85 items.
Printed Editions,
1977-1986
Scope and Content Note
Contains catalog production material, book business correspondence with other co-op members, sales records, isbn #s list and
distribution records, ca. 1/3 record storage box (see also Series III, Box 42, Finances).
Purgatory Pie Press,
1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes edition #52 of "Post Card Set Nine," 7 items.
Quasha, George (poet, Station Hill Press), , ,
1978 1982 1985-1986
Scope and Content Note
7 Dick Higgins letters to Quasha.
Quebec gigs, , ,
1984 1986 1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes programs and other printed ephemera.
Queensland Art Gallery,
1993-1994
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Anne Kirker about purchasing works from Dick Higgins, and about "Fluxus and after..."
Rachel, Vaughan (poet, Kaprow's wife),
1975-1977
Scope and Content Note
9 letters, including Erotikon contribution.
Ratner, Rochelle (American Book Review), , ,
1980-1982 1985-1986 1988
Scope and Content Note
16 letters.
Rehfeldt, Robert and Ruth (German artist and poet), , ,
1976-1982 1984-1987 1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes, mail art, printed ephemera and correspondence in German, ca. 80 items.
Reid, Terry (Australian artist), ,
1976-1977 1992
Scope and Content Note
Original handwritten and typescript poems contained in much of the correspondence, and one page description from Dick Higgins
about 1976 Maciunas banquet, 21 letters total.
Restany, Pierre,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Erotikon contribution, 1 letter.
Robertson, Clive (Canadian writer and performance artist), ,
bulk 1974-1979 1990-1991
Scope and Content Note
Includes printed ephemera, issue 1 of
Voicespondence, and booklet for "In the Singular," 1975, ca. 50 items.
Robson, Ernest (sound poet and publisher of Primary Press),
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes two poetry chapbooks, 55 items, 1974, 1976-1979 [bulk], 1981-1982, 1986, 1988, 1990. Rogalski, Piotr (Polish artist):
mail art, original linocuts and drawings, 20 items.
Rosenberg, Marilyn (book artist), ,
1980 1982-1984
Scope and Content Note
10 items, including mail art photocopied book.
Rosenthal, Nelleke (Dick Higgins's assistant) and Michael,
1974-1983
Scope and Content Note
ca. 55 letters.
Rothenberg, Jerome (writer), , , , ,
bulk 1975-1977 1978-1979 1981 1984 1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
36 items.
Ruhé, Harry (Galerie A, Amsterdam), , , ,
1976-1977 1979-1984 1986 1992
Scope and Content Note
Substantial correspondence regarding Dick Higgins' exhibits and publications stock at Galerie A.
Russ, Andrew (poet),
1991
Scope and Content Note
Includes 7 chapbooks and
Translating Translating Translating Apollinaire.
Rypson, Piotr (Polish visual poet and scholar), ,
1978-1980 bulk 1982-1993
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence documents extensive exchange of bibliographic information on pattern poetry, also 5 editions of
Sator and poetry mss by Rypson (see Box 29 for 1984-1993), ca. 1/2 record storage box total (see also Series V-B, Box 78).
Rypson, Piotr (cont.),
1984-1993
Sacerio-Garí, Enrique (Spanish pattern poet),
1988
Scope and Content Note
6 letters.
Sackner, Marvin and Ruth (concrete and visual poetry collectors), , ,
1979-1980 1982-1984 1986-1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes working bibliography of Sackner archive, ca. 60 items.
Salzburg course (Internaionale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst),
1993
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Barbara Wally and others, student projects with photographs and contact sheets of a performance (Danger
Music #17?), reports, class schedule, computer diskette (full, unable to retrieve info), etc.
Saper, Craig (concrete poet and scholar at Univ. of Florida),
1988
Scope and Content Note
9 letters and 1 poem.
Sarenco (Italian multimedia artist and publisher of
Factotum-Art and
Lotta Poetica),
1976-1985
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence, including 1 letter by Sarenco which corrects the origin of the term "poesia visiva" (29 Oct 1986),
and other letters documenting a dispute with Gino di Maggio; and
Factotum-Art no. 2 (1978); ca. 85 items.
Satori,
1988-1991
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Gary Green and Pat Sims, ca. 26 items.
Saunders, Robert(poet),
1991
Scope and Content Note
8 items.
Schneemann, Carolee (performance artist), , , , , ,
1975 1981 1983-1984 1988 1990 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Contains original watercolor Christmas card, n.d., printed ephemera and typescript of "Cezanne, She was a Great Painter,"
ca. 19 items.
Schöning, Klaus (Director of Hörspiel Studio 3, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln), ,
1985-1988 1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence relating to the organization of "Girlande für John [Cage]" and 1 page contributions by both Knowles
and Oliveros, ca. 60 items.
Schraenen, Guy (Belgian editor), , , ,
1977 1983 1990 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
8 items.
Serendipidy Books Distribution,
1976-1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Unpublished Editions distribution, book catalogs (see also Small Press Distribution).
Sikorski, Tomasz (Polish performance artist), ,
1984 1986-1987
Scope and Content Note
Includes printed ephemera, 19 items.
Silverman, Gilbert (Fluxus collector), ,
1980-1983 1987-1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes inventory of 1981 and 1988 Dick Higgins sales of books and Fluxus works to Silverman Collection, ca. 40 items.
Skaggs, Stephen (calligrapher), ,
1989-1990 1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes 20 slides of calligraphy by Skagg.
Skopic, Cathy (artist), , ,
1976 1980-1982 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Includes 7 original Christmas cards, 11 items.
Small Press Distribution, , ,
1977-1980 1984 1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence about Unpublished/Printed Editions distribution, book catalogs (see also Serendipidy Books Distribution).
The Smith/The Scene, , , , , ,
1972 1974-1977 1979-1980 1984 1988 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
ca. 27 items
Smith, Phil (same as Phil Demise, poet and publisher of Gegenschein),
1975-1980
Scope and Content Note
Includes Erotikon contribution, 20 items.
Smith, Stuart (Smith Publications), ,
1979-1980 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
4 letters, performance instructions for "Tit for Tat" and ms. introduction
Smith, Sylvia (Smith Publications),
1982-1985
Scope and Content Note
13 letters.
Sohm, Hanns (German collector),
1974-1989
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence mostly regarding Sohm Archive, to which Dick Higgins sold a portion of his archive, and some about Fluxus artists,
ca. 126 letters.
Something Else Press, , ,
1965-1969 1971-1978 1980
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, most about Something Else Press bankruptcy, also includes 6 page "Overview of the Status" of the press, financial
statements, inventories, 1973-1974 catalog, and misc., 5 folders(see also Series III, Box 42, Finances).
Spodarek, Diane, ,
1977-1979 1981
Scope and Content Note
Includes Spodarek 45 recording of "Potentially Dangerous," 13 items.
Spoerri, Daniel, , , ,
1965-1966 1969-1970 1974-1976 1981
Scope and Content Note
Contains an angry letter from Dick Higgins to Spoerri (2 Nov 1976), ca. 40 items.
Staeck, Rolf and Klaus (German graphic artists), ,
1977-1981 1986
Scope and Content Note
Includes mail art postcards, 23 items.
"SUNY/Purchase Fluxus gig,"
1983
Scope and Content Note
Fluxfest '83 was related to the exhibition "Fluxus, etc: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection," 4 Mar 1983-5 Mar 1983.
Printed ephemera and working versions of the performance program, ca. 30 items.
SUNY Press,
1985-1987
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence regarding Pattern Poetry publication, ca. 55 letters (see also Series III, Boxes 58-61 for production
material and other corresp.).
Steiner, Sherry (performance artist),
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3 compositional mss and printed ephemera, 21 items.
Szkárosi, Endré, ,
1990-1991 1993
Scope and Content Note
About performance in Hungary, ca. 15 items.
Talbott, Harold, ,
1975-1979 1983-1984
Scope and Content Note
18 items.
Tan, Margaret (pianist), , , ,
1982-1987 1989 1991 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence about performing Dick Higgins compositions, announcements and photo of Tan performing, ca. 30 items.
Tarlow, Florence (actress), , ,
1963 1985-1988 1990-1991
Scope and Content Note
Includes long letters from Tarlow regarding her illness.
Tellus,
1989-1992
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, most about Fluxtellus contibutors controversy with Wexner Center.
Theodore, Crystal (art historian),
1979
Scope and Content Note
4 letters and typescript of "Art: X+1 Again."
Thompson, Susan (Dick Higgins's neighbor in Vermont 1970s),
1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes typescript of Dick Higgins's 14 page play "East Hampton: or The Private Life of the Pudgies." [Note: Dick Higgins
thought he destroyed all copies of this play.]
Thys, Myriam (Dutch PhD student),
1981
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, one by Dick Higgins answering 6 broad questions about performance art.
Tilton, Sumner B. (lawyer, Tilton, Erskine and Berkeley), , ,
1960 1965-1972 1975
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence concerning Carter Higgins's estate.
Tót, Endre (Hungarian conceptual artist), , ,
1974 1976-1977 1979
Scope and Content Note
Includes postcards and printed ephemera, 20 items.
Tóth, Gábor (Hungarian performance artist and poet), ,
1976-1985 1990-1991
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence about performances and pattern poetry, photographs of performances including "KEP/Picture/ Read on
Me!", "I Said and I Wash My Feet," which Tóth termed action poetry, "A Little Extension to the Art," and 14 other photos.
Also printed ephemera and small conceptual works, ca. 110 items (see also The Kitchen file for important letter [18 Oct 1980]
and Series V-B, Box 78).
Tragtenberg, Livio (Brazilian composer), ,
1983-1987 1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes photograph of "O. de A. do Brasil" performance and printed ephemera, 28 items.
Truck, Fred, , , ,
1976 1978-1983 1985-1986 1989
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 items.
Tyler, Richard (Uranian Press),
1976-1978
Scope and Content Note
Primarily printed ephemera, but also 2 letters, 23 items total.
Umbrella
Scope and Content Note
14 items, includes 7 issues (see also Judith Hoffberg, Box 16).
Unpublished Editions, ,
bulk 1976-1978 1980-1981
Scope and Content Note
Catalog production materials including proofs, paste-up, and photographs; also correspondence documenting problems with distributor
Christopher Stevens; ca. 130 items.
Van Barneveld, Aart (Stempelplaats), ,
1978-1979 1983
Scope and Content Note
11 letters.
Van der Marck, Jan, , ,
1979-1982 1984 1989
Scope and Content Note
15 items.
Vautier, Ben, , , , , ,
1974 1978-1985 1987 1989 1991-1992 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Substantial amount of printed ephemera and small publications; also contains correspondence and announcements, two folders.
Vaz, Guilherme (Brazilian Composer), ,
1974-1975 1979
Scope and Content Note
13 letters.
Vehicule (Canadian gallery), ,
bulk 1974 1979
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Allan Beally, 15 items.
"Venezuala Gig,"
1979
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3 photocopied scores by Philip Corner for performance and printed ephemera.
The Vienna Group and Their Circle (catalogue designed by Dick Higgins),
1983-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and corrections.
Vigo, Edgardo Antonio (Argentinian visual poet), , ,
1966-1967 1971 1974
Scope and Content Note
16 letters.
Von Maure, Karin (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart),
1982-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, some regarding "Notations" exhibition, 17 letters.
Vostell, Wolf, , , ,
1966-1967 1970 1972 bulk 1974-1987
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence with a substantial quantity of handwritten letters from Vostell documenting the exchange of ideas,
collaborations and personal matters. Also contains material relating to Vostell's work "Technological Oak Tree" (aka T.O.T.)
made for and owned by Higgins; "Untitled" photo of a tree (received by Dick Higgins 20 Jun 1972); a photo of Vostell and Dali,
ca. 1980; an original drawing, 1985; 10 slides from Museo Vostell of Vostell's site and environmental work, 1978; partial
photocopy copy of Ben Vautier's "excommunication" of Vostell and Joseph Beuys from Fluxus and Higgins's written response,
1982; correspondence regarding Higgins's donation to Museo Vostell and explanation of his work "David"; photocopied project
instructions; mail art postcards; and much printed ephemera; ca. 1/3 record storage box.
Waldrop, Rosemarie and Keith (Burning Deck Press, see also Ahern correspondence), , , ,
1976-1978 1981 1983-1985 1987-1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes short reviews by Dick Higgins of K. Waldrop's writings, 16 items.
Walker Art Center,
1993
Scope and Content Note
Materials and correspondence related to "In the Spirit of Fluxus" exhibition, 1993, including poster, printed ephemera, event
schedules and announcements and correspondence with Elizabeth Armstrong, Curator.
Watts, Robert, , , , ,
1974 1977-1978 1980 1983 1986-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes Bicentennial note stationary and other printed ephemera, 34 items.
Weintraub, Linda (Blum Art Center), ,
1984-1987 1989-1991
Scope and Content Note
16 items.
Wendt, Larry (sound poet historian and electronic musician),
1977-1979
Scope and Content Note
ca. 55 letters, most regarding sound and pattern poetry bibliographic information.
Wendt, Thyl (German artist),
1978-1981
Scope and Content Note
10 letters.
WhiteWalls (magazine), ,
1979-1980 1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes issue no.2 (Winter/Spring 1979), and two letters from Buzz Spector, 6 items.
Wickenden, Bob (Henry Robert, artist and sound poet), , ,
1975-1978 1986 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Includes poetry typescripts and a Dick Higgins letter describing his artistic origins, 25 Nov 1975, in response to Wickenden's
letter relating the current state of his thought processes, ca. 38 items.
Wiesbaden Fluxus,
1992
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence regarding arrangements for exhibition and film program; also includes a photograph of Dick Higgins
at exhibition.
Wilding-White, Mary-Louise (Dick Higgins's aunt), , ,
1962 1966-1977 1981-1993
Scope and Content Note
Contains mostly correspondence regarding family matters, and some about the John Woodman Higgins Armory, ca. 210 items (see
also Worchester Pressed Steel files).
Wilson, Bill (William, art critic), ,
1976-1978 1993
Scope and Content Note
Letters documenting tension between Wilson and Dick Higgins over the content of certain magazines, 10 letters (see also Ray
Johnson Box 17 for letter to
Arts, ca. 1965).
Wilson, Martha (director of Franklin Furnace), , , ,
1977 1979 1984 bulk 1988-1991
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence about Franklin Furnace, ca. 25 items (see also Franklin Furnace file, Box 11).
Wolfenbüttel Conference, 1987
Scope and Content Note
See Series V-B, Box 78.
Woodall, John (performance artist), ,
1989 1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes performance instructions for "Gim Crack," performed at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, 1989, and
"Tools of Performance" exhibition checklist, 5 items.
Worchester Pressed Steel,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Financial, sales, and other reports, meeting minutes, etc.
Williams College,
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence with faculty members, syllabus, term project assignments, attendance records, Dick Higgins notes and
copy of "Fluxus: theory and reception" for Dick Higgins course "Introduction to Fluxus," 1987. Also contains material for
"Fluxus, 25 years," 1987-1988, such as correspondence, budgets, Dartmouth loans checklist, correspondence and info for catalog,
performances and publicity.
Williams, Emmett, ,
1966-1969 1974-1982
Scope and Content Note
Contains personal and other correspondence regarding Something Else Press bankruptcy (1974), their 1975 dispute, some relating
to Fluxus artists, including one letter written subsequent to Higgins's visit to the Sohm Archive which mentions that Dick
Higgins could "find no mention anywhere that Maciunas accepted Beuys as part of Fluxus," 27 Mar 1982, and 9 page letter from
Dick Higgins describing in intimate detail his nervous breakdown, 19 Nov 1974. Also performance script "How to perform Emmett
Williams' Four Directional Song of Doubt" by Dick Higgins, 1984 (see Special Collections accession no. 890164 for original
work), 7 photographs of typesetting, and original graphic "Portrait of a Lady," 1974, by Ann Williams, ca. 1/4 record storage
box.
Williams, Eugene (Emmett's son), , , ,
1971-1982 bulk 1972-1980 1989 1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes intimate personal correspondence and some relating to collaborations, one Dick Higgins poem 7 Nov 1974 and poems
by Williams, printed ephemera, 27 photographs of Williams and family, and Dick Higgins letter which describes how Maciunas
was severely beaten (9 Nov 1975), ca. 1/2 record storage box.
Williams, Jonathan,
1974-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, most relating to book projects, personal matters, and Jargon Society. Also contains some printed ephemera,
Jargon catalogs, one photograph of Williams, 1976, and Williams's Erotikon contribution, ca. 127 items.
Würz, Hervé (French artist),
1975-1980
Scope and Content Note
20 letters, most about a reprint of Dick Higgins's Five Traditions, but also contains Higgins's short accounts of Fluxus first
meetings with Nam June Paik (6 Jan 1976) and Ken Friedman (19 Nov 1975).
Xatrec, Christian (né Mathieu),
1987-1992
Scope and Content Note
20 items.
Young, Ian (artist, poet and publisher of
Catalyst), , ,
1974 1976-1977 1979
Scope and Content Note
15 letters.
Young, Karl (poet and publisher of Membrane Press),
1977-1978
Scope and Content Note
Contains some correspondence about publishing of
Six Fillious and two "vocabularies" by Young, 12 items.
Zack, David (Canadian art writer),
1974
Scope and Content Note
1 catalog of the CV-NUT-Art show.
Zanini, Walter (Director of Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Sao Paulo), ,
1974 1976-1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, most regarding Dick Higgins's 1976 exhibition at the Museum, 22 letters.
Zekowski, Arlene (writer and professor of English at Eastern New Mexico Univ.), also Stanley Berne, , , ,
1975-1979 1981 1984 1988-1992
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 items.
Zen Arts Center, 1980-1983
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, most about programming and also includes Dick Higgins drawings and other material related to the Center's
1981 brochure, ca. 85 items.
Zürich Conference, ,
1976 1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes Dick Higgins's handwritten lecture notes; Higgins's "Some Poetry Intermedia" poster, 1976; and correspondence with
Harry Polkinhorn, Max Nänny and Claus Clüver, ca. 70 items.
Zurbrugg, Nicholas (Australian scholar), , , ,
1977-1978 1983-1984 1986 1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
Contains mss for "Sound Art, Radio Art, and Post-Radio Performance in Australia" and "Jameson's Complaint: Video-Art and the
Intertextual 'Time-Wall'," plus other photocopied Zurbrugg writings, 18 items.
Series II.
Works,
ca. 1955-ca. 1992
Physical Description:
2.5 linear feet
5 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series contains manuscripts of poetry, essays and music compositions by Higgins with foul matter and some correspondence with
editors, arranged alphabetically by title. The manuscripts are accompanied by notes regarding where Higgins submitted them
for publication and where they were published. About 10% of the manuscripts have several versions and notes regarding composition.
In some cases, Series III should be consulted for other manuscript versions and full production material. Rejected manuscripts,
filed alphabetically in box 41, are works by Higgins that he thought unworthy of publication. Many of these files contain
rewrites, illustrating Higgins attempt to correct or salvage the work. This series also includes a partial set of Something
Else Newsletters and two personal journals, 1966, 1973, which include notes and versions for poems and other works.
Folder of bio-bibliography, articles about Higgins, conversations with publisher
abstand zum abstand veb; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
Alan Sondheim and the Knee-Jerk School of Criticism
Scope and Content Note
ms, correspondence to Charles Bernstein and Kostelanetz
Appearances and Disappearances; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
assignments; in
Something Else Yearbook
The Autobiography of the Moon
Scope and Content Note
See also Series IV, Box 65.
Bande Cordier's Circular Canon
Scope and Content Note
Two copies of
Ear Magazine 3, no.6 (Sep/Oct 1977)
being in a corner of a corner; in
Clown War
Boris Blastoffs last dance; in
Modular Poems
Cat Alley
Scope and Content Note
Ms, book, correspondence.
Catastrophe; in
New Poems
Celestials
Scope and Content Note
For Bengt af Klintberg
Cent mots des clohes a noixes; in
Borbarigmi
City with all the Angles
Scope and Content Note
See also Series IV, Box 43.
Conceptual Forks; in
Ear Magazine
Consellation #11; in
Poems, Plain & Fancy
A Dance for Maureen Conner; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
Death and the nickle cigar
Dé-coll/age (magazine)
Scope and Content Note
No. 2 (Nov 1962) with Dick Higgins's "The Broadway Opera," with a letter from Jon Hendricks.
Deep summer together poem (killed project, but in Everyone Has Sher Favorite)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mss, galley, repros, 2nd issue of
Mouth of the Dragon.
Design plays ( )
1960
Scope and Content Note
Mss and copyright requests.
A Dialectic of Centuries
Scope and Content Note
See "Intermedia," Box 39.
Dice to decimal correspondences
Scope and Content Note
Includes Dice Decimal Correspondence chart with Dick Higgins note, "used for performing chance operations on texts using dice."
"Distributing Books"
Scope and Content Note
mss (essay); in unreleased Something Else Newsletter 1, no. 7 (1973).
ducks tails shaking; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
"Employment questionnaire"
An Encyclopedia of Poetry; in
Unmuzzled Ox
the ephitaphs
Scope and Content Note
Mss, correspondence, 2 photographs of the 1977 Naples exhibition and one photo of ceramic work.
Epikall Quest
Scope and Content Note
Original ms.
Everyone has Sher Favorite (His or Hers)
Scope and Content Note
Ms and cover proof (see also Box 81, for cover art).
Exemplative Manifesto
Scope and Content Note
Mss "Exemplative Works of Art," correspondence, production, mss partial, see "2 essays written on May 16, 1976," in next folder
and Mac Low correspondence, Box 20, for interesting dialogue about this work (see also Box 47B for title negative).
Exemplative Works of Art; in
Dialectic of Centuries
Five Myths of Postmodernism
Scope and Content Note
3 mss, with corrections by Billy Name, Harry Polkinhorn and Lisa Null, first draft and final version of ms, correspondence.
Five Traditions of Art History, an Essay
Scope and Content Note
Poster.
Fluxus: Theory and Reception
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence includes ms comments by Ann Williams, Knowles and Ken Friedman, and mss.
Foew
Scope and Content Note
Visual material.
For Eugene in Germany
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mss, bound proofs with cover and corrections, cover art.
For Kathy K_ _ _ _; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
Scope and Content Note
i.e., Kathy Kohler.
Four Dangers, a Structure and a Symphony
fourteen considerations
Scope and Content Note
For Wieland Schmeid.
Fourth of July Variations
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (one letter, no ms).
French Revolution,
1955
Scope and Content Note
Early happening, typescript of prop list.
Friend, what's going on here?; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
George Herbert's Pattern Poems
Scope and Content Note
In their Tradition: mss (master's thesis) and bibliography (see also Series III, Box 45, for production material).
Gilles; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
glasslass
Scope and Content Note
Poster.
Great Meat Boycott
Scope and Content Note
Mss and newsletter in which piece was published.
Happytime the Medicine Man
Scope and Content Note
See also Series III, Box 65.
his and hers; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
History of Art; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
Horizons (essay)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mss.
Horizons: The Poetics and Theory
Scope and Content Note
See also Series III, Box 50.
Hymn; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
Scope and Content Note
Empty folder.
I wonder if these are my laster pieces
Innovation
Scope and Content Note
"Original in Dialectic of Centuries box"; became a Something Else Newsletter.
Intermedia: Notes toward the art of the 70s,
1980
Scope and Content Note
With a letter to Dr. Jutta Siegurd-Schultze, 1980 (became
Dialectic of Centuries).
"it could be you too"; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Johnny, Are You Frightened of your dreams?
Scope and Content Note
Part of 7.7.73 cycle and also published in
Modular Poems. Mss, notes by Dick Higgins, correspondence.
jolie julie est ma mimou: poem and brush drawing; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
The journey: eight colored scenes
Scope and Content Note
dupe ms.
Just who knows what,
1964
Juvenilia
Scope and Content Note
Two issues of
Horae Scholasticae, literary magazine at St. Pauls, with work by Dick Higgins.
Leather jacket vaudeville; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
Legends and Fishnets
Scope and Content Note
See also Series III, Box 44.
Letters to the editors, ,
1972 1976-1992
Scope and Content Note
Various; includes copy of
Lotta Poetica 15-16 (Aug-Sept 1972).
The Köln Fluxus and Happenings Show
life; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
life on his wife's casting couch: in
Some Recent Snowflakes
Scope and Content Note
Paste-up, proof, type galley.
life and times of the croissant: in
Epickall Quest
Scope and Content Note
Mss, 3 letters regarding Len Fulton and Keith Waldrop, publisher of Burning Deck.
The Limitations of Distribution
love song for straights; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
lyronic: no binding permitted poem
Scope and Content Note
Letter, notes.
The Madonna on the rocks
Scope and Content Note
Film scenerio (1 pg)
many mirrors for Gertrude Stein
Scope and Content Note
Proofs [fragile, have been conserved].
Martin (movie script); in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
Mediocracy: getting the arts past the
1980s
mice all over the place
Scope and Content Note
Mss with specs for typesetting.
Milwaukee poem; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite, "creamcity review"
modern times; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
Scope and Content Note
Mss, correspondence, notes.
modular poems
Scope and Content Note
See also Series III, Box 44.
More Danger and Fur Poems to be Performed
moving; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
the nature of fish; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
A New Novel About Sypholoon Endestuary
Scope and Content Note
Ken Friedman's commentary; Dick Higgins letter to Friedman (no ms).
started very strangely
1968
Non-Performance Pieces,
1968
Scope and Content Note
Mss of prose poems.
Novalis: Hymns to the Night
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (with Bruce McPherson of Treacle Press, publisher of this book translated by Dick Higgins); part of ms translation
with letter to Ken Elmslie, 8 Aug 1976, regarding section i, mss sections ii-vi.
Ode to London,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Several copies printed on mylar.
Of Celebration of Morning
Scope and Content Note
Partial mss, arranged by worlds (see Series III for full production material).
Of the Autogogs and the gowns
Scope and Content Note
Mss essay "to be in Epickall Quest."
On Doing too Much
Scope and Content Note
For
Dialectic of Centuries, 1977, mss, two copies.
100 Plays
Scope and Content Note
Printed mss.
Pattern Poetry
Scope and Content Note
Guide to an Unknown Literature; See also Series III, Boxes 58-61.
A Penny for your thoughts, aka Penny Piece
Scope and Content Note
In Avalanch; correspondence (3) with Dick Higgins's description of this performance piece, and reference to photographs (not
in folder).
Le Petit Cirque au fin du Monde
Scope and Content Note
Copy of
Aarevue #50/51 (Jan-Feb 1973).
Pleasures of life or . . .; in
Modular Poems
Poem from or for Bern Porter
Scope and Content Note
In Everyone Has Sher Favorite (bp 30 vii 76), along with Bern Porter's "The Erotikon Contributions."
Poetry of John Cage
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence only, no mss.
Portrait of a Woman
Scope and Content Note
In Everyone Has Sher Favorite, poem, Dick Higgins's notes, variations.
Post-Cognitive Era
Scope and Content Note
Essay (original folder has note "acquired for Ben Pattersen 1978"), 3 mss, correspondence.
Post-modern performance; in Performance by Artists,
1979
Protest piece
Scope and Content Note
Directions for a performance, one sheet.
A p.s. for Steve McCaffery
Scope and Content Note
Two sheets.
put differently another secratic question for Mike Belt
Scope and Content Note
In Everyone Has Sher Favorite, also includes ms entitled "Another secratic question for Mike Belt."
red dog (Roter Hund)
Scope and Content Note
In Everyone Has Sher Favorite; correspondence, notes, mss in English and German.
Reviews by Dick Higgins,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
"Three Worlds Three Women" in
Contact II 2, no. 1 (Nov-Dec 1978) and typescript of "Teaching & Learning as Performing Arts" and "Coo-less Haiku" (M.J. Phillips' haikus
in
News Art), clipping.
Saint Joan at Beaurevoir,
1959-1960
Scope and Content Note
Performance script (1960), flyer, mss, typescript, and mss (1959) with explanation of use of slides in performance.
Kurt Schwitters
Scope and Content Note
Translated by Dick Higgins; poem, essay, Francis Picabia poem translation.
Selected early works
Scope and Content Note
Production correspondence; (see also Series III
Poems, Plain & Fancy).
Seven Stars for Professors
6 invitations for Piano & Pianist
Scope and Content Note
Mss (one sheet), Dick Higgins notes.
six trivial reflections,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Six copies of mss.
The Sixties
Scope and Content Note
Two letters, no mss.
snowflake
Scope and Content Note
An impromptu.
So; in
Asylum v.6, no.2 ( )
Sep 1990
Some Graphis Mirrors.
1967
Scope and Content Note
A Threadneedle booklet; graphics with text.
some poetry intermedia
Scope and Content Note
Poster.
Some recent snowflakes
Scope and Content Note
Ms, with specs.
Something Else Newsletter
Scope and Content Note
Vol.1, nos.1-12; vol.2, nos.1-8; vol.3, nos.2-3; misc. book order forms, Camille's Reports nos. 1-3, SE newscard nos. 1-9.
Song, "a little sparkling moment"
Song (Graphis 192b) for any voices(s) and instrument(s)
Scope and Content Note
Three copies of mss, some repros, correspondence with Andrew Bogle, Auckland City Art Gallery regarding "Chance in Art" show
and 10th anniversary issue of EAR, where it was published.
Sonnet: "Of Barton winds my breath is made"
Scope and Content Note
Mss, corresp, clippings, holograph versions of poem.
Spring Game: an opera for shadow puppets
Scope and Content Note
Ms, proofs, correspondence.
strange fellows, or Dr. Daffy's Greek lover
Styles in Cognitivism
Scope and Content Note
Essay (note on folder, "see also Two Essays Written on May 16, 1976"), two copies.
Suggested activities (i-vi)
Symmetry
Scope and Content Note
Poem, one letter.
Symphony No. 1007
Scope and Content Note
One sheet.
Tamerlane's Darugar and Timurtas's Silence (pattern poem/graphic)
The Tart, or Miss America; in
Jefferson's Birthday
Teaching at Cal Arts
Scope and Content Note
In three parts (part Yeni, part Lingam, and Climax) mss for parts 1-2, 2 letters, clippings from
LA Free Press 1, 2, 3.
10.5155.20: art contemporain
Scope and Content Note
Issue no.5, guest-edited by Dick Higgins and Karl Kempton, correspondence, illus., mss.
This one's for Tony,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Flyer for a happening,, Newhall, CA [Cal Arts?].
Three movements of wheels,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Directions for making and drawing a music wheel machine, 1959 written on original folder.
Three Paradies of my own Styles; Epickall Quest
3 reflections on Post-Structuralism
Scope and Content Note
Made into postcards. Mss, holograph versions, typesetting.
Three Things by Dick Higgins
to gather together #10
Scope and Content Note
Composed for a collective piano piece originally by Daniele Lombardi.
to my brother and sister english teachers
Towards an Allusive Referential
Scope and Content Note
Mss (for Dialectic of Centuries) two copies.
28 things to think about
Scope and Content Note
Became graphic with Conz.
twenty six parallels to the english alphabet
2 Essays written on
16 May 1976
Scope and Content Note
Both in
Dialectic of Centuries, mss (typescript), Styles in Cognitivism, Exemplative Works of Art, one letter.
Two Hundred and Sixteen Basic Cuing Situations
2 insincerities
Scope and Content Note
Two letters (between Dick Higgins and David Wilk, regarding publishing this piece.
2 things about the woods; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
Underpiece/Overpiece
Scope and Content Note
In
Horizons, typescript mss, correspondence, holograph outline summary.
untitled ("AHA - - -")
23 Sep 1971
Scope and Content Note
one sheet
untitled ("vain man/"); in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
4 Feb 1977
waiting for a friend
Scope and Content Note
In
Some Recent Snowflakes, two mss (typescript) versions.
waltz macabre; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
wedding bells in 100 words (see also French version Cent mots . . . [ ]); in
Poems, Plain & Fancy
1970
winter music; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
words are mirrors; in
Some Recent Snowflakes
Yankee: two letters; in Intersection
You're in the news today: a proposed environment; in Everyone Has Sher Favorite
Child's History of Grown-Ups
Declaration of Independence (for NESPA)
de perfide
Scope and Content Note
Mss, 4 letters.
East Hampton: or The Private Life of the Pudgies
Scope and Content Note
See also Susan Thompson file in Series I.
ebb tide: a musical hörspiel
Scope and Content Note
Performed at Poughkeepsie; mss, notes, production correspondence, issues of
The Poultry Times used for research.
end of something
Scope and Content Note
Mss, correspondence.
Figures in front of a curtain: Leonora Carrington,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mss, catalog of 1976 retrospective exhibition at Univ. of Texas, Austin.
happy birthday of the chross
the last supper (without jesus)
a legendary situation
Scope and Content Note
Mss, 1 letter.
Newface
Scope and Content Note
Mss, corrected copy, notes (portions published in
New Lazarus Review 3/4 (1980).
An open letter to Livingston Biddle
Scope and Content Note
Mss, 2 letters.
Please write a second stanza
The Prodigal Son
Scope and Content Note
Mss, correspondence.
rein de rein, les deux vols
A Self-referential Sonnet
The Spoken Pause: An Essay for Alison
to be made into a song and be sung by Mike Bolt
untitled ("bold told - - -')
14 Feb 1977
A valentine for valentines
Scope and Content Note
Mss, holograph version, one letter.
Variation on a theme by freifeld
winter song
Scope and Content Note
Mss, correspondence.
Women and Composition, an Outsider's View
Scope and Content Note
Mss, correspondence.
Journal 1 ( )
1966
Scope and Content Note
Bound ms with inserts, poems, notes, etc.
Journal, , Berlin
Aug 1973
Scope and Content Note
Poems, notes, etc.
Series III.
Books,
1964-1992
Physical Description:
11.5 linear feet
27 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series contains production material in the form of correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, galleys, repros, dummies, drawings,
photographs and negatives for illustrations (especially for
Of Celebration of Morning and
Variations on a Natural Theme), and jacket and cover designs, organized chronologically by publication date. Most notably documented are
Of Celebration of Morning, 1980,
Pattern Poetry: a Guide to an Unknown Literature, 1987, and the translation of Giordano Bruno's
On the Composition of Images, Signs and Ideas (1591), 1991. Series II should be consulted simultaneously for different versions of manuscripts, as well as some production
material. Financial papers relating to Something Else Press (1972-1974) and Printed Editions (1978-1985) are filed in this
series.
Something Else Press,
1972-1974
Scope and Content Note
Financial reports, accounts payable, 1972-1973, general correspondence, some with The Book Organization, financial arrangements
with Dick Higgins, bankruptcy claims, Dick Higgins protest exhibits, and 1973-1974 tax filings (see also Something Else Press
in Series I, Box 31).
1977 finances, ,
1972-1976 1974-1976
Scope and Content Note
Receipts, rent, income, tax protest information for 1972-1976, 1974-1976 audit exhibits, and misc.
Printed Editions
Scope and Content Note
Bank statements, cancelled checks, group expenses, catalog costs, inventories, meeting agendas, members correspondence, and
misc (see also Series I, Box 27).
Box 43
Postface,
1964
Scope and Content Note
Original proof (see Box 47 for photos).
Brecht, George,
Chance-Imagery, Something Else Press,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Original Brecht ms, photocopied Jan van der Marck article on Brecht, Great Bear Pamphlet.
A Book about Love & War & Death, Something Else Press,
1972
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mss, repros, galley, Bahasa Indonesia-English dictionary.
Giorno, John,
Cancer in My Left Ball, Something Else Press,
1973
Scope and Content Note
Mss, front matter, correspondence and misc., galley, proof, repros, photographs, negatives, jacket, announcement (see also
Box 47 for paste-up).
City with all the Angles,
1974
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mss, proof, repros, layout.
Box 44
Williams, Emmett, Selected Shorter Poems 1950-1970, Stuttgart: Edition H. Mayer: New York: New Directions, 1974
Scope and Content Note
Ms of Dick Higgins introduction and notes, galley.
Modular Poems,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Mss, paste-up, page proofs, production, mailing list for complimentary copies.
Legends and Fishnets,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Mss, duplicate mss, and mss marked for composing type, galley, dummys, mechanicals, binding sample, and illus.
Box 45
Everyone has Sher Favorite (His or Hers),
1977
Scope and Content Note
Ms, proofs, jacket design (see also Box 81 for cover art).
George Herbert's Pattern Poems: in their Tradition,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Ms, proofs with Greek accents corrected by Cage, illus., jacket design (see also Box 81, for cover art).
The Epickall Quest of the Brothers Dichtung and Other Outrages,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Original project file with correspondence and Dick Higgins's notes for book, ms edited by Dick Higgins with McPherson correspondence,
duplicate mss, ms edited by McPherson, galley, page proofs, bound signatures, jacket design, and production materials (typesetting
and correspondence).
A Dialectic of Centuries: Notes Towards a Theory of the New Arts, ,
1978 1979
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and misc. editorial, front and rear matter, "Intermedia" ms (see Box 46 for more).
Box 46
A Dialectic of Centuries, ,
1978 1979
Scope and Content Note
Ms with Postface (rejected), galley, proofs, paste-up, production, corrected copy; and reprint correspondence, jacket, page
proof corrected by MacLow (see also Box 62 for index and Box 81 for paperback cover art).
Box 47A
Giorno, John.
Cancer in My Left Ball, Something Else Press,
1973
Scope and Content Note
Paste-up.
Box 47B
Variations on a Natural Theme,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Large quantity of photographs and negatives.
37 photographs and 7 color transparencies shot in Turkey, , by Dick Higgins and Knowles
Jan 1963
Scope and Content Note
Some used in
Jefferson's Birthday/Postface.
Exemplativist Manifesto
Scope and Content Note
Title negative
Box 48A-B
Happenings (unpublished),
1978
Scope and Content Note
Photographs (many of Allan Kaprow's 18 happenings in six parts and Dick Higgins's Stacked deck) and ms.
Box 49
Filliou, Robert, Six Fillious, Milwaukee: Membrane Press,
1978
Scope and Content Note
Mss of McCaffery and Nichol translations, ms, proofs (see also Karl Young correspondence, Box 36).
Some Recent Snowflakes (and Other Things),
1979
Scope and Content Note
Mss and correspondence, most in reference to submitting the individual poems to publications, other correspondence with Stinehour
Press, which made an Christmas card edition of "the snowflakes of giordano bruno," 1977. Short letters to Mac Low and Rothenberg
regarding Bruno, and to McCaffery about the relationship of "paraSITism" to Derrida, 1977, and letters regarding "meta" to
McCaffery, Kostelanetz and Hassan, who inspired the poem, 1977. Also galley, page proofs, dummy, bound signatures with jacket,
jacket design with negatives and specs, paperback jacket design.
Piano Album: Short Pieces, ,
1962-1984 1980
Scope and Content Note
Production correspondence, mss (with specs marked), dummy, covers, mailer.
Box 50
Of Celebration of Morning,
1980
Scope and Content Note
General production correspondence, front and rear matter with photographs, text notes, mss, first proofs, setting copies,
galley, proofs, photography notes, jacket illus., die copy/jacket, negatives of book, mailer (see also Series I, Box 14, Hansen
file for letter describing project).
Sonata for Prepared Piano,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Production correspondence, typesetting fragments, photographs and negatives (see Box 80 for paste-up).
Ten Ways of Looking at a Bird,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Production correspondence, paste-up, mss, photographs, negatives, typesetting, proofs (see also Box 79 for paste-up).
26 mountains for Viewing the Sunset From,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mss, typesetting, negatives, proofs.
Variations on a Natural Theme, for Orchestra,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Mss, correspondence, specs, typesetting original negatives and photographs (see also Box 47 for more photographs and Box 80
for paste-up).
Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia,
1983
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mss, dupe ms with Kostelanetz notations (see also Box 57).
Box 51
Of Celebration of Morning,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Original photographs with job ticket tags and original printed score for "Justin Song (nightmare)."
Box 52-54
Of Celebration of Morning,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Photographs and negatives, some mss and original handwritten score for "Justin Song (nightmare)" (see also Box 81 for oversize
negatives).
Box 55
Of Celebration of Morning,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Original drawings for illustrations.
Box 56
Of Celebration of Morning,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten "Index to the 5 Loops," jacket illus., unbound signatures, score, repros, photographs.
Box 57
Horizons,
1983
Scope and Content Note
Page proof, illus. (negatives and repros of illus.)
Sounds Like (anthology of homeophonic translations, unpublished project, ,
1982-1985 1987
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Robert Kelly 1982-1984 [bulk], 1985, 1987 (see also Kelly file Series I, Box 18); general correspondence
1984-1984; information on Ludic section, Bergbo translation by af Klintberg; and
Marmalade, 1983 by William Benton.
Poems, Plain & Fancy,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mss.
Visible Language,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mss (filed alphabetically by essayist).
Box 58
Visible Language,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Production costs, galley, cover illus, machine list, order forms, errata lists.
Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Mss, illus and captions, production correspondence, mailing lists, permissions, corrected copy (see also Series I, Box 30,
SUNY Press, for more correspondence; and Series V for photocopied monographs and articles of pattern poetry used for writing
and illustrating Higgins's book, various mss versions by language and extensive correspondence regarding research).
Box 59
Pattern Poetry,
1987
Scope and Content Note
First draft, and preliminary roughs of bibliography.
Box 60
Pattern Poetry,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Dummy.
Box 61
Pattern Poetry,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Index (3x5 cards).
Box 62
A Dialectic of Centuries,
1978
Scope and Content Note
Index (3x5 cards).
Box 63
Bruno, Giordano,
On the Composition of Images, Signs and Ideas, Translated by Chareles Doria, ed. and annotated by Higgins, New York: Willis, Locker and Owen (1591),
1991
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Doria, and regarding publisher search, mss (see also Boxes 57-58).
Box 64
Bruno,
Images
Scope and Content Note
Mss and page proofs.
Box 65
Bruno,
Images
Scope and Content Note
Design experiments, illus, production, misc.
The Autobiography of the Moon,
1992
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mss, proofs.
Happytime the Medicine Man,
1992
Scope and Content Note
Mss, proofs (includes thumbnails), correspondence, galley, repros, negs, illus, checklist printout of fonts.
Box 79
Ten Ways of Looking at a Bird,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Paste-up.
Box 80
Sonata for Prepared Piano,
1981
Scope and Content Note
paste-up.
Variations on a Natural Theme,
1981
Scope and Content Note
paste-up.
Brochure (?)
Scope and Content Note
paste-up.
Box 81
For Eugene in Germany,
1973
Scope and Content Note
cover art.
Everyone has Sher Favorite,
1977
Scope and Content Note
cover art.
George Herbert's Pattern Poems,
1977
Scope and Content Note
cover art.
A Dialectic of Centuries, ,
1978 1979
Scope and Content Note
paperback cover art.
Of Celebration of Morning,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Negatives.
Negatives for "Bestiary"
Scope and Content Note
To be published with Francesco Conz (see Series I Conz files for more information).
Series IV.
Personal,
1960-1994
Physical Description:
1.0 linear feet
2 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous personal items, such as telephone logs, calendars and correspondence about the John W. Higgins Trust and Higgins's
financial portfolio.
Box 66
Telephone logs, ,
1980 1982-1994
Scope and Content Note
Calendars, 1976-1983, 1988-1991, 1993-1994; correspondence with Boston Safe Deposit regarding John W. Higgins Trust, 1960,
1965-1967, 1971-1977, 1981 and Griffing Management about Dick Higgins's financial portfolio, 1976-1982 (see also Griffing
correspondence, Box 13); curious articles, including many "Mathmatical Games" by Martin Gardner.
Series V.
Pattern poetry,
ca. 1987-ca. 1991
Physical Description:
5.5 linear feet
11 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Research and study materials accumulated by Higgins in preparation for his book
Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature, 1987, a checklist and bibliography of pattern poems before 1900. The series is arranged in two subseries, V-A. Research
Materials and V-B. Correspondence. See Series III for book production material.
Series V-A
Research materials,
ca. 1976-ca. 1991
Physical Description:
4.0 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
Contains mostly photocopies of monographs and articles by pattern poets and scholars in the field, with some annotations,
bibliographic and otherwise, by Higgins and colleagues. It also contains photos, transparencies and photocopies of text reproductions
with coordinating captions; repros; ms versions given to scholars for proofing, most with annotations and corrections; and
some correspondence about pattern poetry searches; microfilm and permissions requests; and index cards used by Higgins for
bibliographic notations. Organization follows closely that of the book, which is by language. Separate poet/author files exist
for those with substantial material, and are filed alphabetically within the language. Consult Appendix A for microfilm reels,
which Higgins acquired from various libraries and institutions.
Box 68
General information for chapter 1.
Greek
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, Cretan, ancient, Codex Leninopol, Gregory of Manzianzen, Manuel Holobdos, John Loyd, Macarius Chrysophalus,
Moschion to Osiris, Wojaczek, Theocritus, Byzantine, Neo-Greek.
Latin: 800-1500, Neo-Latin
Scope and Content Note
After 1500, poets/authors A, includes: Pierre Abélard, Johannes Heinrich Alsted[ius], various anonymous works, August II,
Ausonius.
Box 69
Latin
Scope and Content Note
Poets/authors B-N, includes: Bonifacio Baldassarre; André Bayam; Mario Bettini; Marco Antonio Bonciari; Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz,
contains Dick Higgins ms "Caramuel's
Metametrica"; Lancino Curzio; "Enigma of Sator"; Eugenias Vulgaris; Florentius; Fragmentum 89; William Gager; Hannardus de Mosaeus Gameren;
Louis de Gand de Brachey; Dominica Gisberto; Hermannus de Santa Barbara; Johannes Honthemius; Hrabanus Maurus; Iacobus Nicholai
de Dacia; "In memoriam . . . Elisabethae"; Janus Pannonius; Josephus Scottus; Laevius; many works by Fortunio Liceti; Salmonicus
Macrinus (Salmon Maigret); Jacob Madelen de Gouda; Benedetto Mariotti; Antonious Netenblad.
Box 70
Latin
Scope and Content Note
Poets/authors O-Z, includes: Odo of Paris; Optatian; Abraham Ortelius; Paschasius a S. Iovanne Evangelista; Enco Silvio Picolomini;
Giovanni Battista Pigna; Lorenzo Pignoria; Samuel Pomario; Bernard Praetorius; Vergil-Commentary Servius; Silo, King of Asturias;
Antonio Maria Spelta; Andreas Schuster (Sutor); Valentin Thilo; Uffing of Werden; Giovanni Pierio Valeriano Bolzano, ms of
Dick Higgins introduction to Geoffrey Cook translations; Voulté Jean (Vulteus Iohannes); Richard Willis (Willett).
Hebrew
Scope and Content Note
Poets include Abraham ben Samuel Abuláfia and Solomon di Oliveyra.
Hungarian
Scope and Content Note
5 booklets and other photocopies of Kilián István essays and a catalog of the
Baroque in Hungarian Folk Art.
Italian
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and poet Nicolò de' Rossi.
French
Scope and Content Note
To 1500, 1600-1900, outside France.
Box 71
French (cont.)
Scope and Content Note
Poets/authors B-Z, includes: Louis "Aloysius" Bertrand, Jean de Boyssières, A. Canal, C. Chabrol, Albert Ferland, Jehan Grisel,
Stèphane Mallarmé, Gabriel Martin, François Rabelais, Paul de la Salle.
German
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (see also Adler and Ernst files); poets/authors A-Z, includes: Matthias Abele von Lilienberg; Anonymous 1754
New Year chalice; Adolf Bäuerie, copy of
The Spirit that Moves Us 2, no. 1 (Fall 1976); Sigmund von Birken; Erhard Falkener; frakturs; Johann Leonhard Frisch; Johann Geuder; Catherina Regina
von Greiffenberg; Joseph Guthsmüthl; Johann Helwig; Johann Klaj[us]; Theodor Kornfeld; Nikolaus Peucker; J. Schirmer; Georg
Weber.
Scandinavian - Danish
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, especially with Erik Dal, and poet Nicolaus Petersen.
Box 72
Scandinavian - Swedish
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Af Klintberg, Mats B. and Ulf Gran; and poets Johann Kankel and Israel Palleen.
Scandianvian - Finnish and Norwegian
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence.
Dutch and Flemish
Scope and Content Note
Includes Belgian correspondence, and poets Matthijs de Castelein and Anthonijs de Roovere.
English
Scope and Content Note
Includes some correspondence with Steve McCaffery, which runs throughout files, and poets/authors A-Z: Philip Ayres, Joseph
Beaumont, Edward Benlowes, William Bosworth, William Browne, Robert Browning, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Hugh Crompton,
William Drummond of Hawthornden, George Herbert, Sam Loyd, Sir John Mennes and James Smith, George or Richard Puttenham, Francis
Quarles, Samuel Speed, Matthew Stevenson, Joshua Sylverster, Edward Taylor, Thomas Watson.
Box 73
English - American
Scope and Content Note
Includes 20th art pieces by Peggy Midener, chapbook by William Jay Smith, and Pennsylvania Dutch materials with 2 letters
and ms from Bill Fetterman.
English - Canadian
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with bp Nichol, James Reaney, Caroline Bayard, etc. and offprint from
Poetics Today of Dick Higgins essay "Pattern Poetry as Paradigm."
English - Scottish
Scope and Content Note
Includes poet Allan Ramsey.
Hispanic
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Jean Longland (Hispanic Society of America), ms version of Spanish section, author/poet files
for L.M. Carbonero y Sol y Merás and D. José González Estrada.
Hispanic
Scope and Content Note
Latin American.
Hispanic
Scope and Content Note
Catalan; correspondence and author file for Giuseppe Grilli.
Portuguese
Scope and Content Note
Includes much correspondence with Ana Hatherly (see also Series V.B).
Portuguese
Scope and Content Note
Brazilian.
Box 74
Slavic - Polish
Scope and Content Note
Materials include general, early Dick Higgins's draft of Polish section, Fall 85, addenda with Rypson ms "Homo Quadratus in
Labyrintho," 5 folders of correspondence and general. Some correspondence with Rypson throughout (see also V-B and Series
I, Boxes 28-29).
Slavic - Other
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and general for Bulgarian, Croatian; (correspondence with Harold Segal, Columbia Univ.), Czech (Bohemian) including
Dick Higgins ms with corrections, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Ukranian.
Other European
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and general for Albanian, Armenian, Breton, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Roumanian.
Box 75
Far East - Chinese
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence and general, and poet/authors Chung-huo Wang and Shi-Ch'ang Sang.
Far East - Japanese
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence and general, and
Gosai Tenn_ shinkan shikiske-ch_.
Indian
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Karl Kempton, Kalanath Jha, Geoffrey Cook, R.K. Joshi, general materials, and old notes for ms.
Indian - Burmese
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and general with handwritten poem translations by Ngoe Soe, and Dick Higgins Burmese ms with extensive corrections
and notations.
Indian - Kannada
Scope and Content Note
Author T.V. Venkatachala Sastry.
Indian - Mar_th_
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and general includes letters from R.K. Joshi.
Indian - Sanskrit: general
Indian - Tamil
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and general contains correspondence with Cook, George L. Hart and Hank Heffetz (both of UC, Berkeley) and author
V.R. Modh_van.
Indian - Tibetan
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and general includes 1 letter from Cook.
Box 76
Islamic - Persian
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and general with letters from Ahmad Z. Al-Ansari, and Dick Higgins ms with corrections.
Islamic - Turkish and Indonesian
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and general.
Languages with no pattern poetry reported
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence about searches for African, American Indian, Egyptian (with general), Ethiopian, Loatian, Malaysian,
Monogolian, Nepal, Thai and Vietnamese.
Analogues
Scope and Content Note
Acrostics, chronograms, cryptography, decorated alphabets, emblems, lapidary inscriptions, leonine verse, lipograms, magic,
mathmatical arrays, palindromes, proteus poems, rebuses and shaped prose.
Special Problems
Scope and Content Note
Labyrinths.
Pattern poetry addenda
Scope and Content Note
Represents Dick Higgins's research on pattern poetry since 1986, when ms was closed, until 1991. Organization closely follows
that of the book.
Series V-B
Correspondence,
ca. 1978-ca. 1993
Physical Description:
1.0 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
Two boxes of correspondence between Higgins and scholars, filed alphabetically by correspondent. Types of letters include
inquiries, search statuses, theoretical descriptions and dialogues about pattern poems. Notable correspondents are: Jeremy
Adler, Willard Bohm, Geoffrey Cook, Erik Dal, Charles Doria, Ulrich Ernst, Bill Fetterman, Herbert Franke, Ana Hatherly, Gerald
Janecek, Kalanath Jha, Istvan Kilián, Karl Otto, Max Patrick, Piotr Rypson, David Seaman, Harold Segel. Bulk of correspondence
is between 1983-1987 when Higgins intensively conducted his research and book production activities. Post-1987 dates usually
contain references to loose ends and poems later discovered, which were thought to be of interest to Higgins and others. See
also Series I individual files for more correspondence relating to pattern poetry.
Adler, Jeremy (Goethe scholar, poet), ,
1978 1982-1991
Scope and Content Note
Includes some letters about
Visible Language pattern poetry issue and Wolfenbüttel show and conference (1987), and Adler mss
The Electric Alphabet and
Towards the City. Fragments I-VII, ca. 150 letters (see also Series I, Box 1).
Af Klintberg, Bengt (Swedish pattern poetry), ,
1986-1987 1991
Scope and Content Note
5 letters.
Avrin, Leila (Jewish pattern poetry and micrography), ,
1984-1988 1990-1991
Scope and Content Note
24 letters.
Balan, Jars (Ukranian pattern poetry), , ,
1977-1978 1983 1987
Scope and Content Note
Includes 1 letter from Dick Higgins describing Gombrich's "hermeneutic approach" (9 Jul 1978), 5 letters.
Bohatcová, Mirjam (Czech pattern poetry),
1983-1985
Scope and Content Note
Contains Dick Higgins Czech ms with many corrections by Bohatcová, 8 letters.
Bohn, Willard (Dada scholar with interest in modern visual poetry), ,
1986-1987 1989-1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes Bohn ms "From Sign to Signature in Apollinaire's 'Le Cheval'," 9 letters.
Botar, Oliver (Canadian scholar on Hungarian pattern poetry),
1983
Scope and Content Note
2 letters.
Chouliares, Yiorgos (Greek pattern poetry),
1985
Scope and Content Note
2 letters.
Clüver, Claus
Scope and Content Note
No letters, Clüver ms "Iconicity and Isomorphism in Brazilian Concrete Poems."
Cook, Elizabeth,
1986-1987
Scope and Content Note
4 letters.
Cook, Geoffrey,
1987
Scope and Content Note
10 letters (see also Series I, Box 7).
Dachy, Marc (French Dada scholar with fascination of visual poetry),
1985-1986
Scope and Content Note
6 letters.
Dal, Erik (Danish expert on baroque literature),
1986-1988
Scope and Content Note
13 letters.
Dencker, Klaus Peter (German poet, professor), 1985
Scope and Content Note
2 letters.
Diacano, Mario (Italian critic),
1985-1986
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from Dick Higgins (see also Series I, Box 8).
Doria, Charles,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Includes 2 long letters from Doria describing his "technopaegnia" research, 5 letters (see also Series I, Box 9).
D'Ors, Miguel (Spanish pattern poetry),
1983-1985
Scope and Content Note
15 letters.
Erlhoff, Michael (German scholar and critic),
1986
Scope and Content Note
3 letters (see also Series I, Box 9).
Ernst, Ulrich (German medievalist),
1983-1993
Scope and Content Note
ca. 90 letters and numerous photocopies of Ernst articles.
Fetterman, Bill (Pennsylvania/Dutch poems),
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
9 letters, including one long letter which discusses his proposed dissertation on Cage and other school essays (see also Series
V-A, Box 73, and Series I, Box 10).
Franke, Herbert (and Richard Hayman, Chinese), ,
1984-1987 1993
Scope and Content Note
28 letters, many regarding Franke essay for the book and
Visible Language issue.
Greene, Roland (pattern poetry scholar), ,
1988 1991-1993
Scope and Content Note
9 letters.
Harrier, Richard, , , ,
1983 1985 1987 1990
Scope and Content Note
5 letters.
Hatherly, Ana (Portuguese), ,
1984-1989 1991
Scope and Content Note
Some correspondence regarding
Visible Language issue, 50 letters and 16 postcards (see also Series I, Box 14).
Hodrová, Daniela (Czech scholar),
1983-1984
Scope and Content Note
10 letters.
Janecek, Gerald (American scholar working on Slavic pattern poetry), ,
1983-1986 1988
Scope and Content Note
26 letters.
Jha, Kalanath (Indian expert, specifically on Sanskrit),
1984
Scope and Content Note
Includes much correspondence about Jha essay in book and Visible Language issue, MLA convention which Jha attended 1984, and
ms "Sanskrit Citrak_vyas and the Western Pattern Poems," for VII World Sanskrit Conference, 1984 (see also Series I, New Wilderness
Foundation for overseas travel reimbursement controversy).
Joshi, R.K. (Indian language pattern poetry scholar),
1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
5 letters.
Kilián, Istvan (Hungarian pattern poetry), ,
1983-1986 1990
Scope and Content Note
31 letters.
Levitan, William (Latin pattern poetry at Princeton),
1986
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Dick Higgins.
Lienhard, Siegfried (Swedish authority on Sanskrit literature),
1986
Scope and Content Note
3 letters.
Mayer, Peter, , ,
1984-1985 1987 1989
Scope and Content Note
11 letters (see also Series I, Box 21).
Otto, Karl (American scholar of German Baroque literature), ,
1984-1985 1990
Scope and Content Note
13 letters and Dick Higgins's German ms with Otto corrections.
Pagis, Dan (Hebrew scholar on pattern poetry),
1984-1986
Scope and Content Note
10 letters and Dick Higgins's Hebrew ms with Pagis corrections.
Patrick, Max (major American Herbert scholar),
1983-1988
Scope and Content Note
20 letters, includes 1 that describes why Patrick did not recommend Dick Higgins for a Guggenheim fellowship.
Poniz, Denis (Slovenian scholar and poet), ,
1977-1978 1983
Scope and Content Note
14 letters.
Pozzi, Giovanni (Medieval Latin literature), ,
1977-1978 1983-1985
Scope and Content Note
Includes Stumenti Critici X, no.31 (Oct 1976), 20 letters.
Rypson, Piotr (Slavic pattern poetry), , ,
1979 1984-1989 1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
Extensive correspondence with many long letters by Rypson regarding pattern poetry, especially on Polish and labyrinths,
Visible Language issue, including one by Rypson with critical comments on the finished product, 17 Jul 1986, and Wolfenbüttel conference.
Also amusing explanation of how "sie" is used in the Polish language with poem, 10 Jun 1985, untitled poem by Rypson, 24 May
1985, and Obraz s_owa exhibition catalog, 1987, and photocopied book, 1989, ca. 120 letters (see also Series I, Boxes 28-29).
Sackner, Ruth and Marvin,
1986-1987
Scope and Content Note
2 letters.
Schimmel, Anna-Marie (Sanskrit scholar), ,
1986 1988
Scope and Content Note
3 letters.
Seaman, David (did a dissertation which includes pattern poetry), , , ,
1977 1983-1985 1987 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
12 letters and various photocopied texts and mss by Seaman.
Segel, Harold (Baroque and cabaret theatre and slavic studies),
1983-1987
Scope and Content Note
21 letters.
Tóth, Gábor,
1983
Scope and Content Note
12 letters.
Volz, Robert (librarian at Chapin), , ,
1986 1988 1991
Scope and Content Note
6 letters and checklist of Chapin Library exhibition (1988).
Vos, Eric,
1986
Scope and Content Note
2 letters and ms "The Visual Turn in Poetry."
Westerwell, Bart (Herbert dissertation), ,
1986 1988
Scope and Content Note
4 letters.
Williams, John,
1985
Scope and Content Note
4 letters.
Wolfenbüttel Conference,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Contains various abstracts from participants and conference agendas.
