Fantastic Architecture

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Fantastic Architecture
New York, Primary Information, 2015
13 x 20 cm
200 p.
Hardcover
120 B&W images
3000 ex.
ISBN: 9780990689607

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Primary Information is reprinting the seminal book, Fantastic Architecture, making the book widely available for the first time since it was originally published: first in 1969 by Droste Verlag in German (with the title Pop Architektur) and later in 1970 by Something Else Press as Fantastic Architecture. Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, this artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys. It will retain the book’s unique design, specifically its Mylar inserts, which add unique depth and elaborate the publication’s content.

Contributors to this publication are Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Erich Buchholz, Pol Bury, John Cage, Philip Corner, Jan Dibbets, Robert Filliou, Buckminster Fuller, Geoffrey Hendricks, Richard Hamilton, Raoul Hausmann, Michael Heizer, Jan Jacob Herman, Bici Hendricks, Dick Higgins, K.H. Hoedicke, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Addi Koepcke, Franz Mon, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Gerhard Rühm, Diter Rot, Carolee Schneemann, Kurt Schwitters, Daniel Spoerri, Frances Starr, Jean Tinguely, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Lawrence Weiner, Stefan Wewerka.

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Specific Object

Dick Higgins (1938-1998)
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[Freaked Out Electronic Wizards & Other Marvelous Bartenders Who Have No Wings]
New York, NY: Something Else Press, 1969
leatherette covers
offset
sewn bound
black-and-white
20,3 x 14,5 cm
320 p.
4.000 ex.

Os primeiros escritos de Higgins são alternativamente literários, acadêmicos, musicais e visuais. O acrônimo do título (“Freaked Out Electronic Wizards…”) e o estilo bíblico  referem-se à obsessão de Higgins por formas clássicas e experimentais, tecnologia e piadas. O livro começa com o ensaio “Intermídia” de Higgins, que cunhou o termo e inclui peças curtas, roteiros de performance, poesia e muito mais.

O subtítulo deste livro é “uma gramática da mente e uma fenomenologia do amor e uma ciência das artes como visto por um perseguidor do cogumelo selvagem”, como pode ser visto na folha de rosto.

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O livro é encadernado em forma de bíblia, com uma capa de couro preto com cantos arredondados, páginas de folhas finas e uma fita preta. A diagramação em colunas também remete ao livro de orações, mas a leitura é feita como em uma bíblia poliglota, o texto da primeira coluna continua na primeira coluna da página seguinte, pois cada coluna é dedicada a um tipo de texto: ensaios, comentários, poesia visual, roteiros para performances, desenhos.

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Twenty six mountains for viewing the sunset from

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Dick Higgins (Cambrigde, Inglaterra, 1938-1998).
Twenty-six Mountains for Viewing the sunset from

Music scores and instructions for performance
New York, Printed Editions, 1981
34 p.
28 x 21.5 cm.
p&b; offset; brochura.
Idioma: Inglês

ISBN:0914162-54-3

“This is a cycle of twenty-six one-minute pieces for dancers and chamber ensemble,
notated in an easy-to-play graphic notation.” D.H.

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Variations on a natural theme for orchestra


Dick Higgins
Variations on a Natural Theme for Orchestra

Music scores and instructions for performance (twenty-eight variation)
New York,  Printed Editions, 1982
36 p.
33.5 x 28 cm.
black and brown

This work for standard orchestra is intended to be performed direct from the graphic notation. The orchestral parts are superimposed over a set of twenty-eight visual images made from photographs of a female nude, interpreted according to a set of very explicit instructions, to minimize any improvisatory tendency. D.H.







Ten Ways of Looking at a Bird

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Dick Higgins (Richard C. Higgins), 1938-1998 [Cambrigde, Inglaterra]
Ten Ways of Looking at a Bird – for violin and harpsichord
Printed Editions
New York, EUA. 1981.

Encadernação: Grampo
Music scores with instruction for performance (ten movements)
[20 p], 28 x 21.5 cm.; cor; offset

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Esta composição para violino e cravo usa fotografias de um nu masculino como materiais gráficos subjacentes, todos interpretados dentro dos limites de uma série de conjuntos de até seis arremessos (uma gama) para cada um de seus dez movimentos

This composition for violin and harpsichord uses photographs of a male nude as graphic materials underlying staves, all interpreted within the limits of a series of sets of up-to-six pitches (a gamut) for each of its ten movements.

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Piano Sonata No. 2

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Dick Higgins
Piano Sonata No. 2 (Graphis # 192)
Edition: 750
12×8.5 in.
Printed Editions
Barrytown, NY
1983

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About this object
unbound in folder – 4 acetate overlays printed in different colors. visual score for musical performance.
Medium and Materials
diazo on acetate, offset

This musical work uses four overlays in different colors, each of which is placed over a different sheet of existing piano music. On the overlays are arrows directing eye and hand, separately or together, thus collaging the music that is read through them. 4 page folder, containing 4 silkscreened vinyl sheets in color, 9″ by 12″, 1982

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Piano Album

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Dick Higgins
Piano Album: Short Piano Pieces, 1962-1984
New York: Printed Editions, 1980
Music scores and instructions for performance
36 p.
28 x 21.5 cm.

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Table of Contents:
i – Sophokles I, page 1
ii – Gesti, page 2
iii – Long Arch, page 4
iv – Suggested by Small Swallows, page 6
v – Clouds, page 8
vi – Six Imitations for Piano and Pianist, page 10
vii – Sparks for Piano, page 11
viii – Touch #1 for Piano, page 14
ix – Sophokles II, page 17
x – Touch #2 for Piano, page 19
xi – Haydn in the Forest, page 20
xii – Litany Piano Pieces, pag 23
xiii – Piano Sonata #1, page 29

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“A beautifully produced collection of graphic,
verbal and notated scores…
With relevance to both music and literature,
Piano’s Album iconoclastic scores belong
in belles lettres and music libraries…” D.H.

http://issuu.com/amir_brito/docs/higgins_piano_album

Great Bear. The Complete Set

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Originalmente publicado entre 1965 e 1967, os panfletos da coleção Great Bear foram uma espécie de “quem é quem” da vanguarda nos anos sessenta: George Brecht, John Cage, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Diter Rot e Emmett Williams são apenas alguns dos artistas da coleção, publicada pela Something Else Press. Todos os panfletos são grampeados e possuem 16 páginas (exceto o Manifesto, que tem 32 páginas). Enquanto todos compartilham o mesmo formato, cada título da série foi impresso em cores e tipos de papel diferentes. Fiel aos originais, cada panfleto da reedição publicada pela Primary Information foi impresso em vários tipos e cores de papel e a edição completa vem em uma caixa de madeira feita à mão. O nome da editora está em relevo seco em cada exemplar.

Originally published between 1965 and 1967, the Great Bear contributors were a who’s who of the sixties avant-garde: George Brecht, John Cage, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Nam Jun Paik, Diter Rot and Emmett Williams, were just but a few of the artists/authors in the series. All of the pamphlets were staple-bound and 16 pages in length (except for the Manifesto issue, which was 32 pages). While they shared the same format,each title in the series was printed on varying colors and types of paper. True to the originals, each pamphlet will be printed on various types and colors of paper and the complete edition will come in a hand-made pine box.

Lista de panfletos

01. By Alison Knowles/Alison Knowles
02. A Book About Love & War & Death: Canto One/Dick Higgins
03. Chance-Imagery/George Brecht
04. Injun & Other Histories (1960)/Claes Oldenburg
05. Incomplete Requiem for W. C. Fields/Al Hansen
06. Ritual: A Book of Primitive Rites and Events/Jerome Rothenberg
07. Some Recent Happenings/Allan Kaprow
08. Manifestos/Includes work by Öyvind Fahlström, Robert Filliou, John Giorno, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Diter Rot, Jerome Rothenberg, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts and Emmett Williams
09. Berlin and Phenomena/Wolf Vostell
10. The Twin Plays: Port-au-Prince & Adams County Illinois/Jackson Mac Low
11. Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)/John Cage
12. The Cursive Scandinavian Salve/ Bengt af Klintberg
13. Autobiography/David Antin
14. Popular Entertainments/Philip Corner
15. A Filliou Sampler/Robert Filliou
16. Untitled Essays and Other Works/Allan Kaprow
17. A Look into the blue tide, part 2/Diter Rot
18. The Art of Noise/Luigi Russolo
19. The Last French-Fried Potato and Other Poems/Emmett Williams
20. A Zaj Sampler/ Contains work by Jose-Luis Castillejo, Ramiro Cortes, Javier Martines Cuadrado, Juan Hidalgo, Walter Marchetti, Tomas Marco, and Eugenio de Vicente

http://www.primaryinformation.org/projects/great-bear-pamphlet-series/

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