Dick Higgins
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English composer and poet (1938-1998)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1938
- Works
- 52
Top works
- Summary dissolution
- Storm riders and other plays
- A book about love & war & death, canto one
- The great pamphlet series
- Betwixt & between
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1929-07-27
- Active to
- 2022-04-09
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 837
- Total plays
- 3,362
Tags
fluxussound poetrypoetryexperimentalbritish
Dick Higgins (March 15, 1938 – October 25, 1998) was a composer, poet, printer, and early fluxus artist. Higgins was born in Cambridge, England, but raised in the United States in various parts of New England, including Worcester, Massachusetts, Putney, Vermont, and Concord, New Hampshire. Higgins studied composition with John Cage at the New School of Social Research in New York. He married fellow artist Alison Knowles in 1960. Both took part in the Wiesbaden, Germany Fluxus festival in 1962.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dick
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Place of death
- Quebec
- Spouse
- Alison Knowles
- Child
- Hannah Higgins
- Occupation
- performance artist
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Bachelor of Science
- Field of work
- printmaking
- Movement
- mail art
- Official website
- dickhiggins.org
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- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1938-03-15
- date of death
- 1998-10-25
- manner of death
- natural causes
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
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