Something Else Press
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Something Else Press was founded by Dick Higgins in 1963. It published many important texts and artworks by Higgins, Gertrude Stein, George Brecht, Daniel Spoerri, Bern Porter, Emmett Williams and others. The Something Else Press was an early publisher of Concrete poetry and other works by Fluxus artists throughout the sixties. Originally located in Chelsea in Manhattan, the Something Else Press eventually relocated to Burlington, in Northern Vermont in the seventies.
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[edit] Complete list of Something Else Press publications, 1960s:
Jefferson's Birthday/Postface - Dick Higgins - 1964 The Paper Snake - Ray Johnson - 1965 A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art - Al Hansen - 1965 The Four Suits - Alison Knowles, Tomas Schmit , Benjamin Patterson, Philip Corner - 1965 Ample Food for Stupid Thought - Robert Filliou - 1965 An Anecdoted Topography of Chance - Daniel Spoerri - 1966 DaDa Almanach - Richard Huelsenbeck - 1966 The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein - 1966 de-coll/age happenings - Wolf Vostell - 1966 Dick's 100 Amusements - William Brisbane Dick - 1967 Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations - Marshall McLuhan - 1967 An Anthology of Concrete Poetry - Emmett Williams - 1967 Sweethearts - Emmett Williams - 1968 Games at the Cedilla, or the Cedilla - George Brecht, Robert Filliou - 1967 Store Days - Claes Oldenburg- 1968 Changes: Notes on Choreography - Merce Cunningham - 1968 There's a Little Ambiguity Over There Among the Bluebells - Ruth Krauss - 1968 The Book of Hours and Constellations - Eugen Gomringer - 1968 246 Little Clouds - Dieter Roth - 1968 Geography and Plays - Gertrude Stein - 1968 Notations - John Cage - 1969 foew&ombwhnw - Dick Higgins - 1969
[edit] 1970s
Fantastic Architecture - Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins - 1970 Lucy Church Amiably - Gertrude Stein - 1969 The Gutman Letter - Walter Gutman - 1969 New Musical Resources - Henry Cowell - 1969 The Aesthetics of Rock - Richard Meltzer - 1970 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 - Daniel Spoerri - 1970 Thomas Onetwo - Ernest M. Robson - 1971 A Sailor's Caleder - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Gordon Huntly - 1971 I've Left - Bern Porter - 1971 Found Poems - Bern Porter - 1972 Stanzas for Iris Leak - Jackson MacLow - 1971 1 Walked out of 2 and Forgot It - Toby MacLennan - 1972 Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein - Gertrude Stein - 1972 How to Write - Gertrude Stein - 1973 A Book Concluding with as a Wife has a Cow - Gertude Stein - 1974 Ring Piece - Geoffrey Hendricks - 1973 A Book About Love & War & Death - Dick Higgins - 1972 Breakthrough Fictioneers - Richard Kostelanetz - 1973 A Valentine for Noel -Emmett Williams - 1973 Typewriter Poems -Peter Finch - 1972 The Making of Americans - play by Leon Katz based on the book by Gertrude Stein - 1973 One Thousand American Fungi - Charles McIlvaine, Robert K. MacAdam - 1973 The Ten Week Garden - Cary Scher - 1973 Cancer in My Left Ball - John Giorno- 1973 Something Else Yearbook - ed. Jan Herman - 1974 Brion Gysin Let the Mice In - Brion Gysin, ed. Jan Herman, William S. Burroughs, Ian Sommerville - 1973 Bio-Music - Manford L. Eaton - 1974
[edit] Other publications
Alongside book publications, Dick Higgins published a series of pamphlets titled "Great Bear Pamphlets". You can browse an entire collection of these on [1].
[edit] Changes
In 1973 Jan Herman took over the press from Higgins and a year later the Press folded. Higgins is quoted as saying about Herman:
"too much an editor, and too little a fund-raiser. His idea of doing business was to wrap books and mail them away - for that one has assistants (mailing books IS fun if one can afford the time) - and he spent too little time looking for production money from foundations and wealthy people. So the press went kaput the following year..." -Letter to H.R. December 27, 1976 - Fluxus, The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties - Ruhe - 1979 - 'A' , Leidsekruisstraat 10, Amsterdam.
[edit] References
Peter Frank wrote an annotated history of the press called "Something Else Press- an annotated bibliography" in 1983 published by McPherson and Company.
