something else press

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• CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS

• BOOKS
• George Brecht, Robert Filliou
  Games at the Cedilla, or the Cedilla (1967).
• John Cage
  Notations (1969).
• Henry Cowell
  New Musical Resources (1969).
• Merce Cunningham
  Changes. Notes on Choreography (1968).
• William Brisbane Dick
  Dick's 100 Amusements (1967).
• Manford L. Eaton
  Bio-Music (1974).
• Robert Filliou
  Ample Food for Stupid Thought (1965).
• Peter Finch
  Typewriter Poems (1972).
• Ian Hamilton Finlay, Gordon Huntly
  A Sailor's Caleder (1971).
• John Giorno
  Cancer in My Left Ball (1973).
• Eugen Gomringer
  The Book of Hours and Constellations (1968).
• Walter Gutman
  The Gutman Letter (1969).
• Brion Gysin
  Brion Gysin Let the Mice In / ed. Jan Herman, William S. Burroughs, Ian Sommerville (1973).
• Al Hansen
  A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art (1965).
• Geoffrey Hendricks
  Ring Piece (1973).
• Jan Herman (ed.)
  Something Else Yearbook (1974).
• Dick Higgins
  Jefferson's Birthday/Postface (1964).
• Dick Higgins
  foew&ombwhnw (1969).
• Dick Higgins
  A Book About Love & War & Death (1972).
• Richard Huelsenbeck
  DaDa Almanach (1966).
• Ray Johnson
  The Paper Snake (1965).
• Leon Katz
  The Making of Americans / play by Leon Katz based on the book by Gertrude Stein (1973).
• Alison Knowles, Tomas Schmit, Benjamin Patterson, Philip Corner
  The Four Suits (1965).
• Richard Kostelanetz
  Breakthrough Fictioneers (1973).
• Ruth Krauss
  There's a Little Ambiguity Over There Among the Bluebells (1968).
• Charles McIlvaine, Robert K. MacAdam
  One Thousand American Fungi (1973).
• Toby MacLennan
  1 Walked out of 2 and Forgot It (1972).
• Jackson MacLow
  Stanzas for Iris Leak (1971).
• Marshall McLuhan
  Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations (1967).
• Richard Meltzer
  The Aesthetics of Rock (1970).
• Claes Oldenburg
  Store Days (1968).
• Bern Porter
  I've Left (1971).
• Bern Porter
  Found Poems (1972).
• Ernest M. Robson
  Thomas Onetwo (1971).
• Dieter Roth
  246 Little Clouds (1968).
• Cary Scher
  The Ten Week Garden (1973).
• Daniel Spoerri
  An Anecdoted Topography of Chance (1966).
• Daniel Spoerri
  The Mythological Travels of a Modern Sir John Mandeville, being an account of the Magic, Meatballs and other Monkey Business Peculiar to the Sojourn of Daniel Spoerri on the Isle of Symi, together with divers speculations thereon (1970).
• Gertrude Stein
  The Making of Americans (1966).
• Gertrude Stein
  Geography and Plays (1968).
• Gertrude Stein
  Lucy Church Amiably (1969).
• Gertrude Stein
  Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein (1972).
• Gertrude Stein
  How to Write (1973).
• Gertrude Stein
  A Book Concluding with as a Wife has a Cow (1974).
• Wolf Vostell
  de-coll/age happenings (1966).
• Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins
  Fantastic Architecture (1970).
• Emmett Williams
  An Anthology of Concrete Poetry (1967).
• Sweethearts (1968).
• Emmett Williams
  A Valentine for Noel (1973).

• THE GREAT BEAR PAMPHLETS
• During the life of the Press, Higgins established sub-categories and imprints in order to publish material that, in format or content, was not appropriate to the Press' own formats. Most important of these spin-offs were the Great Bear Pamphlets.
• The Pamphlets break down in two series, each of which appeared in two stages. The first series, which was numbered, began with the booklets by Alison Knowles and Higgins, issued in 1965, and was completed with the appearance of eight issues next year. The second series commenced with John Cage's pamphlet in early 1967, the other nine pamphlets appearing later that year.
• The second series was unnumbered; the listing of the entire Great Bear line on the back of the books in the second series - as well as on reprints of those in the first - presented all twenty pamphlets in alphabetical order, disregarding the first series' original numeration.
• The Great Bear Pamphlets can be read/downloaded on the site of UbuWeb.

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• ARCHIVES and RECORDS

• Library Russell Sage College, New York
  Something Else Press Papers, 1940(ca.)-1967 (2.0 linear feet), housed at the New York State Historical Documents, Russell Sage College, Library, 46 Ferry Street, Troy, New York 12180. Correspondence, poems, worksheets, drafts, ephemera, jottings, of 99 avant-garde poets represented in An Anthology of Concrete Poetry (1967), compiled by Emmett Williams. Original drafts sent to Williams for publication, layout instructions, and notes on the genesis and meaning of poems. Poets represented include Alain Arias-Mission, Carlo Belloli, Claus Bremer, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Eugen Gominger.

• Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
  Documents concerning the history of the Something Else Press are also in the Dick Higgins Papers, housed at the Getty Research Institute.
  • [finding aid] Inventory of the Dick Higgins Papers, 1960-1994 / Lynda Bunting (1994, revised 2004).

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• SECONDARY LITERATURE

• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Peter Frank
  Something Else Press. An annotated bibliography (McPherson : Brattleboro 1983)

• ARTICLES, ESSAYS & PAPERS
• Steve Clay
  'Dick Higgins and Something Else Press. Exploring the Ways and Means of Communication', published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Something Else Press' in the Centre for Artists' Books, Dundee (1-20 April 2000).
• Hugh Fox
  'Dick Higgins and the Something Else Press', in Arts in Society 11,no. 2 (Summer 1974) 308-317. Article details the publishing activities of Dick Higgins and his anti-tradition Something Else Press.
• Dick Higgins
  'Two Sides of a Coin. Fluxus and Something Else Press', in Visible Language 26, no. 1-2 (Winter 1992) 143-153. Outlines briefly the process by which the Fluxus community coalesced. Recounts the birthing of Something Else Press, Inc., and the transformation of aspects of the press' objectives into Printed Editions. Discusses the parallel concerns shared by Something Else Press and Fluxus publication activities as well as their divergent agendas and strategies.
• Dick Higgins
  'The Something Else Press. Notes for a history to be written some day', in The New Lazarus Review.
• Dick Higgins
  Modernism Since Postmodernism. Essays on Intermedia (SDSU Press, 1997). The final volume in Higgins's critical trilogy which also includes A Dialectic of Centuries. Notes Towards a Theory of the New Arts (Printed Editions 1979) and Horizons. The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia (Southern Illinois University Press 1984).
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