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Something Else Press published some of the most radical art and literature of its time and provided a foundation and template for the artist's book medium, which has flourished internationally since the 1960s.\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e features selections from rare and out-of-print Something Else classics such as Claes Oldenburg's \u003ci\u003eStore Days\u003c\/i\u003e; John Cage's \u003ci\u003eNotations\u003c\/i\u003e; Emmett Williams' \u003ci\u003eAn Anthology of Concrete Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e; Richard Kostelanetz's \u003ci\u003eBreakthrough Fictioneers\u003c\/i\u003e anthology; Jackson Mac Low's pioneering poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eStanzas for Iris Lezak\u003c\/i\u003e; Gertrude Stein's \u003ci\u003eMatisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein\u003c\/i\u003e; Bern Porter's \u003ci\u003eI've Left\u003c\/i\u003e; Wolf Vostell's \u003ci\u003eD -coll\/age Happenings\u003c\/i\u003e; Al Hansen's \u003ci\u003eA Primer of Happenings \u0026amp; Time\/Space Art\u003c\/i\u003e; and other pamphlets and artist projects for the page by Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Philip Corner, Daniel Spoerri, Andr  Thomkins and Richard Meltzer, among others. 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In 1965 he restored the term \"intermedia\" to the English language, giving it new dimension to recognize the dissolution of boundaries between traditional modes of art-making and the open field for new forms that cannot be compartmentalized. His own contributions to intermedia are many—as a participant and instigator of happenings, as writer and composer straddling traditional and vanguard forms, among others—but it was Something Else Press (1963–74) that redefined how \"the book\" could inhabit that energized, in-between space.  Something Else Press was as much a critical statement and radical experiment as it was a collection of books by some of the most luminary artists and writers of the 20th century: Gertrude Stein, John Cage, Ray Johnson, Dieter Roth, Bern Porter, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Emmett Williams, Robert Filliou, and George Brecht, among many others. Along with his Great Bear Pamphlet series and the Something Else newsletter, Higgins exploited and subverted conventional book production and marketing strategies to get unconventional and avant-garde works into the hands of new and often unsuspecting readers.  Edited by Granary Books publisher Steve Clay and Fluxus artist Ken Friedman, this judiciously curated and indispensable compendium of essays, theoretical writings and narrative prose dives deep into the ever-influential ideas that Higgins explored in theory and practice. Clay and Friedman have chosen works that illuminate Higgins' voracious intellectual appetite, encyclopedic body of knowledge and playful yet rigorous experimentation in a selection that includes many writings long out of print or difficult to find.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51055046099217,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055048851729,"sku":"NIN9781938221200","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51898388578577,"sku":"NGR9781938221200","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141555024145,"sku":"NLS9781938221200","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1938221206.jpg?v=1751028929"},{"product_id":"pattern-poetry-book-dick-higgins-9780887064142","title":"Pattern Poetry","description":"Pattern poetry-poetry from before 1900 that fuses literature and visual art-has existed since the times of ancient Crete and Egypt. Less well known than modern visual poetry, pattern poetry has been produced in most European and American literatures, and, as close analogues, in many oriental literatures.  This book tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting and classifying more than 2,000 works. Illustrations of each major genre of pattern poem are included. The book also explores related forms, such as graphic music notations, shaped prose, sound poetry, and poetic labyrinths, to name a few. A glossary, essays by two world authorities on the oriental analogues to the pattern poem, and the first full bibliography on pattern poetry complete the work. With this book, Dick Higgins has provided an indispensable tool for opening up the area of pattern poetry to the scholar and the lay reader alike, bringing order to what has been an obscure and confusing area, and delighting the eye and mind by casting light on these forgotten treasures.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51227278115089,"sku":"GOR006930061","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51317271593233,"sku":"NGR9780887064142","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52674206597393,"sku":"NLS9780887064142","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0887064140.jpg?v=1751423980"},{"product_id":"horizons-book-dick-higgins-9780809311422","title":"Horizons","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten for the lay reader as well as for academic literary theorists, this book bridges the gulf between the artistic avant-garde in music, visual arts, and  experimental literature and the general pub­lic. 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