HIGGINS Dick
[Richard Carter Higgins] (Cambridge, Inghilterra 1938 - Québec, Canada 1998)
What Are Legends. A Clarification by Dick Higgins
Luogo: Calais - Maine
Editore: Bern Porter
Stampatore: senza indicazione dello stampatore
Anno: 1960
Legatura: brossura
Dimensioni: 21,6x13,8 cm.
Pagine: pp. 48 n.n.
Descrizione: copertina e retro illustrati con due composizioni di diversi caratteri tipografici in nero e rosso su fondo bianco. Libro d'artista interamente illustrato con composizioni calligrafiche di Dick Higgins, autore anche del testo, e disegni di Bern Porter. Opera prima. Prima edizione.
Bibliografia: Archivio della Fondazione Luigi Bonotto: Code FX0087
Prezzo: € 150ORDINA / ORDER
"«What Are Legends» (1960), my first book, is the theoretical text which goes with «Legends and Fishnets» (1958-60, 1969; published in 1976). It exemplifies my near-obsession with unifying my theory and practice, written as it is in my «legend» style; this style uses few verbs in the indicative mode, substituting participles wherever possible, in order to get a pictorial effect in words. Important conceptual models to me were certain late Latin poems in which strings of participles provide the movement of the poem (e.g., the «Stabat Mater») and the last part of the De Quincey «English Mail Coach», as well as the obvious modernist texts by Gertrude Stein and others. I printed it myself when I was at the Manhattan School of Printing, using a handlettered text and found-illustrations by Bern Porter, a highly original graphic artist and writer from Maine whose work I have admired for many years”. (Dick Higgins, «The Strategy of Each of My Books», in «Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia», Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1984; pag. 118).
