1990's+ Publications

Giordano Bruno, On the Composition of Images, Signs & Ideas, Willis, Locker, and Owens, 1591/1991. Trans. by Charles Doria, edited and annotated by Dick Higgins 

I decided to work on Giordano      

Bruno, and to translate some of his Latin writings, which are more interesting to the cultural historians than are the more familiar Italian ones, but none of which have been published in any modern 

Dick Higgins, The Journey: Eight Colored Scenes, Left Hand Books, 1992

The Journey is a collage of parlor game, Renaissance pageant, broken record, crazy wisdom, wild west show and fluxus feedback. Its madcap pacing and wily, kinetic language never spin out of control; as though the play’s theme were some king of dead star no longer capable of illuminating the action, but by virtue of its “gravitat

Dick Higgins, Happytime the Medicine Man, Estampa Ediciones, Madrid and Juan J. Agius Publications, Geneva, 1992

Dick Higgins, Buster Keaton Enters Into Paradise, Left Hand Books, 1994

A series of Scrabble games, each starting with “Buster Keaton” on the board, evolved into a play with Keaton as protagonist.

Dick Higgins, Modernism Since Postmodernism: Essays on Intermedia, San Diego University Press, 1997/2019 

Dick Higgins from the Foreword to Modernism Since Postmodernism:

"Of course kitsch can be fun. Already 125 years ago, Rimbaud recognized this when, in the second section of A Season in Hell, he speaks of liking dumb paintings, door panels, stage sets, backdrops for acrobats, street signs, old-ti

Dick Higgins, Storm Riders, Left Hand Books, 1998

This small book, Higgins’ last published work [in his lifetime], contains eight witty and abstract plays. The title is derived both from the first play (in which such historical characters as Laurence Stern and Belle Starr ponder their place in the universe) and a series of Higgins’s paintings which are included in the book. Both plays and paintings

Henry Cowell, Essential Cowell: Selected Writings on Music by Henry Cowell 1921-1964, McPherson, 2002. Edited and with an introduction by Dick Higgins. Preface by Kyle Gann

This volume presents for the first time a generous selection from the more than 200 essays and articles written by one of the most original American composers and musical theorists of the twentieth century. There are articles on

Steve Clay and Ken Friedman, eds. Intermedia, Fluxus, and Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins, Siglio, 2018

There are few art-world figures as influential—and as little known—as Dick Higgins (1938-1998), co-founder of Fluxus, “polyartist,” poet, scholar, theorist, composer, performer and, not least, the publisher of the Something Else Press. In 1965 he restored the term “interme