HIGGINS, Dick

A truly precocious artist and writer, Higgins was producing original adult art while still a teenager, some of which was collected in Selected Early Works 1955–64 (1982). Higgins wrote mature arts criticism and founded a major avant-garde publishing house, Something Else Press, while still in his mid-twenties. Though his work had little academic or commercial success (and typically earned more recognition in Germany and Italy than in his native country), it should not be forgotten. Before he died...