Select Bibliography on Dick Higgins

  i- books about Dick Higgins

Blom, Ina, ed. Dick Higgins. Oslo, Norway: Henie-Onstad Art Center, 1995 (museum catalog).

Zanchetti, Giorgio, ed. Dick Higgins. Milano: Archivio di Nuova Scrittura, 1995 (museum catalog).

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

ii- discussions in books

Sohm, Hanns, ed. Happenings and Fluxus. Köln: Kölner Kunstverein, 1970 [documentation and bibliography].

Pedersen, Knud. Kampen mod Borgermusik. København: Kunstbibliotekes For­lag, 1973 (German ed.: Der Kampf gegen die Bürgermusik, tr. Ludwig Gosewitz. 

Köln: Michael Werner, 1973. Swedish ed.: Kampen med borgarmusik, tr. Sunne Norgren. Arhus: Kalejdoskop Förlag, 1983).

Nyman, Michael. Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. London: Studio Vista, 1974.

Kostelanetz, Richard. The End of Intelligent Writing. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1975.

Schilling, Jürgen. Aktionskunst. Luzern, Switzerland: Verlag C. J. Bucher, 1978.

Kostelanetz, Richard. Twenties in the Sixties. New York, Assembling Press, 1980 

Kostelanetz, Richard. Metamorphosis in the Arts. New York: Assembling Press, 1980.

Myers, George, Jr. Introduction to Modern Times. Grosse Point Farms, Michi­gan: Lunch­room Press, 1982.

Frank, Peter. Something Else Press. “DocumenText.” New Paltz, New York: McPherson & Company, 1983.

Krakowski, Piotr. O Sztuce Nowej i Najnowszej. Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1984.

Donguy, Jacques. Une Géneration. Paris: Henri Vegrier, 1985.

Sukenik, Ronald. Down and In: Life in the Underground.New York: Morrow, 1987.

Valdis Abolins, Miss Vietnam mit rohem Hering im Mund. Berlin: Elefanten Press, 1988.

Zadrozny, Mark, ed. Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series, 8. De­troit, MI: Gale Research, 1988.

Labelle-Rojoux, Arnaud. L’Acte pour l’Art. Paris: Editeurs Evidants, 1988.

16) Flash Art[:] 25 Years. Milano: Politi, 1989.

Sayre, Henry M. The Object of Performance: the American Avant-Garde since 1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Atkins, Robert. Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords. New York: Abbeville, 1990.

Kostka, Stefan. Materials and Techniques of Twentieth Century Music. En­glewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990.

Brand, Jan, et al. De Woorden en de Beelden: Tekst en Beeld in de Kunst van de Twintig­ste Eeuw/ The Word and the Image: Tedxt and Image in the Art of the Twentieth Century. Utrecht (Netherlands): Centraal Museum, 1991 [exhibition catalog].

Ulver, Stanislav. Západní Filmová Avantgarda. Praha: Cesky Filmovy Ústav, 1991.

Armstrong, Elizabeth, ed. In the Spirit of Fluxus. Minneapolis, MA:Walker Art Center, 1993. [exhibition catalog].

Banes, Sally. Greenwich Village 1963. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.

Zanchetti, Giorgio. John Cage: alle Radici della Seconde Avanguardie. “Scrittura,” 1. Milano: Archivio di Nuova Scrittura [“ANS”], 1993.

Dierks, Christiane. Fluxus Kunst-Bibliothek[:] Künstlerbücher von D. Hig­gins, R. Filliou und M. Kniak in der Oldenburger Universitäts­bibliothek.Oldenburg, BRD: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1994.

Oellers, Adam C. and Spiegel, Sibille. “Wollt ihr das totale Leben?” Fluxus und Agit-Pop der 60er Jahre in Aachen [exhibition catalog]. Aachen, BRD: Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, 1995.

Perloff, Nancy. The Eye and the Ear. Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center, 1995 [exhibition catalog].

Müller, Jürgen E. Intermedialität: Formen moderner kultureller Kommunikation. Mün­ster: Nodus Publikationen, 1996 [pp. 88-89].

Smith, Owen. Fluxus: The History of an Attitude. San Diego: San Diego University Press, 1998. 

Friedman, Ken, ed. The Fluxus Reader. New York: Wiley, 1998. 

Milman, Estera, ed. Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Arts: Subjugated Knowledges and the Balance of Power. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.

Jon Hendricks, ed. What’s Fluxus? What’s Not! Why. Rio de Janeiro: Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, 2002. [exhibition catalogue].

Higgins, Hannah. Fluxus Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 

Sanford, Mariellen, ed. Happenings and Other Acts. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Hendricks, Geoffrey. Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Intermedia, and Rutgers University 1958-1972. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. 

Zurburgg, Nicholas. Art, Performance, Media: 31 Interviews. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Williams, Emmett and Noel, Ann. A Flexible History of Fluxus Facts and Fictions. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007. 

Sell, Mike. Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and The Black Arts Movement. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. 

Brill, Dorotheé. Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth University Press, 2010. 

Thompson, Chris. Felt: Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dali Lama. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 

Bass, Jacquelyn. Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. [exhibition catalogue].

Dezeuze, Anna, ed. The "Do-It-Yourself" Artwork: Participation from Fluxus to New Media. Manchester University Press, 2012.

Herzogenrath, Bernd. Travels in Intermediality: Re-Blurring the Boundaries. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth University Press, 2012. 

Higgins, Hannah and Kahn, Douglas. Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of Digital Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 

Larson, Kay. Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists. New York: Penguin, 2013. 

Lushetich, Natasha. Fluxus: The Practice of Non-Duality. Amsterdam: Editions Rodolpi, 2014. 

Davies, Rhys, Trott, Alex, and Towsend, Christopher, eds. Across the Great Divide: Modernism's Intermedialities, from Futurism to Fluxus. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 

Sholtz, Janae. The Invention of People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

Waxman, Lori. Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, The Situationist International, and Fluxus. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017.

Dumett, Mari. Corporate Imaginations: Fluxus Strategies for Living. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. 

Harren, Natilee. Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 

iii- discussions in journals

 O’Dell, Kathy. “Fluxus Feminus.” TDR, Vol. 41, No.1(Spring, 1997), pp. 43-60. 

Fricke, Stefan. "Danger Music: Der Fluxus/Intermediakünstler Dick HIggins ist Tot Stefan Fricke." Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (1991-), Vol. 160, No. 2, RARE INSTRUMENTE (März/April 1999), p. 41

Kostelanetz, Richard. "Dick Higgins (1938-1998)." PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May, 1999), pp. 11-17

Monk, Meredith. "I Remember Dick Higgins." PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May, 1999), p. 18

Medina, Cuauhtémoc. "The "Kulturbolschewiken" I: Fluxus, the Abolition of Art, the Soviet Union, and "Pure Amusement." RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, No. 48, Permanent/Impermanent (Autumn, 2005), pp. 179-192

Frank, Peter. "Grand Dada." Art on Paper, Vol. 11, No. 2 (November/December 2006), p. 49, 51, 53, 55, 57

Frank, Peter. "New Wine in Old Bottles."  Art on Paper, Vol. 13, No. 1 (September/October 2008), pp. 60-65

Higgins, Hannah. "Love's Labor Lost and Found: A Meditation on Fluxus, Family, and Somethings Else." Art Journal, Vol. 69, No. 1/2 (SPRING-SUMMER 2010), pp. 8-22

Marranca, Bonnie. "Lines of Thought: The Graphis Series of Dick HIggins."  

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2014), pp. 92-98

Rothman, Roger. "Fluxus, or the Work of Art in the Age of Information."  

symplokē, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, Posthumanisms (2015), pp. 309-325

Reeves, Christopher. “Alloturgies in the Annex: Something Else Press and the Fluxus Mode of Production.” Counter Signals. Vol. 2. (Winter, 2017-2018), pp. 36-51.