Dick Higgins and his Something Else Press epitomized the riotous art of the 60sThere are few artworld figures as influentialand as little knownas Dick Higgins 193898 cofounder of Fluxus poet scholar theorist composer performer and not least the publisher of the legendary Something Else Press. In 1965 he restored the term to the English language giving it new dimension to recognize the dissolution of boundaries between traditional modes of artmaking and the open field for new forms that cannot be compartmentalized. His own contributions to intermedia are manyas a participant and instigator of happenings as writer and composer straddling traditional and vanguard forms among othersbut it was Something Else Press 196374 that redefined how book could inhabit that energized inbetween 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.