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PRints and posters
André Tomkins, Lichtschablone für Dick Higgins, 1967. White on white print, edition of 50.
John Giorno, Rainbow Buddhas & Bodhisattvas, 1973. Silkscreen with Alison Knowles on Nepalese Eucalyptus paper, edition of 25.
Dick Higgins, Graphis #144 Wipe-Out for Orchestra and Graphis #143 Softly, for Orchestra, 1967
Printed card stock and printed acetate overlay, edition of 100.
PRints and posters
Robert Filliou, L'Immortelle Mort Du Monde (The Deathless Dying of the World), 1967
Marcel Duchamp, Coeurs Volant, 1936/1967
Printed by Alison Knowles
Alison Knowles and Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1967
The Big Book, 1966-67
Published by The Something Else Press, Alison Knowles' The Big Book was comprised of eight moveable pages—each four feet wide by eight feet tall—anchored to a metal spine. This walk-in construction was equipped with casters, which made it possible to leaf through individual pages.
Photograph by Peter Moore; © Northwestern University.
Each page had access to the next, opening up different spaces between them where a reader could spend some time. It was given its first public airing in 1966, at the Something Else Gallery , New York City (pictured). The book was built of found materials from this environment, and designed so that it could be shipped, packed into two crates.
Photograph by Peter Moore; © Northwestern University.
It subsequently travelled to various venues in Canada, Europe, and the United States. In the course of these travels, the book gradually disintegrated into its individual components, so that by the time it departed from the final venue in La Jolla, California only a few pages remained.
Photographs by Peter Moore; © Northwestern University.
Camille's reports
Camille Gordon...was the [Something Else Press] alter ego at large, under whose name any number of staff, perhaps wishing to preserve their anonymity, might contribute to the newsletters or even conduct correspondence; particularly according to Dick Higgins, if they were a well-known artist working for the Press as a day job. Over the course of the years Camille developed a curious and sometimes dramatic backstory, for example in Newscard No. 12 we learn that she "was killed on Route-1 when her car smashed into a chicken truck." Not to worry: "It isn't true. She's gone to Afghanistan, to Mazar-i-Sharif, with her fiancé, a folk song collector. We don't know how the tribesmen will feel when they see her shoe buckles, but we're awfully glad to hear she's okay." (Something Else Newlsetter, Vol. 1, No. 7). Sometimes Camille was replaced by "Charles Gagnon" whose initials are also C.G. and for Dick Higgins sound like the French adverb ci-gît, which means "here lies." - From Steve Clay and Ken Friedman, eds. Intermedia, Fluxus and Something Else Press, Selected Writings by Dick Higgins, Siglio, 2018.
BUTTONS & Balloons
"Free Dick Higgins," pin, 1969
Promiotional object for the release of Dick Higgins, foew&owmbwhnw
Promotional balloon for Emmett Williams, ed. An Anthology of Concrete Poetry. The balloon reads, "concrete poetry is something else."
Promotional balloon for Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, Benjamin Patterson, Tomas Schmidt, The Four Suits
Catalogues
Dick Higgins, What to Look for in a Book - Physically & Catalogue 1965-66, 1965
German Avant-Garde Publications & 1967 Publications, 1967
The Arts of the New Mentality, Catalogue 1967-1968, 1967
Something Else Press Catalog 1969-1970, 1969 & Tomorrow's Avant Garde Today Catalog 1970, 1970
Foreign Imports/Futura Object Books 1969, 1969 & Dick Higgins and Jan Herman, Catalogue Fall/Winter 1973-1974, 1973
"20 Year Retrospective" (1979)
Installation view of Dick Higgins and The Something Else Press: A 20 Year Retrospective at the Franklin Furnace in New York City, 1979. The exhibition featured text, books, ephemera, and artworks by Dick Higgins and the Something Else Press
Installation view of Dick Higgins and The Something Else Press: A 20 Year Retrospective at the Franklin Furnace in New York City, 1979
Installation view of Dick Higgins and The Something Else Press: A 20 Year Retrospective at the Franklin Furnace in New York City, 1979
Installation view of Dick Higgins and The Something Else Press: A 20 Year Retrospective at the Franklin Furnace in New York City, 1979
Installation view of Dick Higgins and The Something Else Press: A 20 Year Retrospective at the Franklin Furnace in New York City, 1979
Dick Higgins reading at a public event for Dick Higgins and The Something Else Press: A 20 Year Retrospective at the Franklin Furnace in New York City, 1979