Anthology of writings and artworks previously published by Dick Higgin''s Something Else Press, gathered and edited in 1972 (though unpublished), and presented for the first time here in print in this Primary Information published 2022 edition. Artists include Dick Higgins, Eleanor Antin, George Brecht, Pol Bury, Augusto de Campos, Clark Coolidge, Philip Corner, William Brisbane Dick, Robert Filliou, Albert M. Fine, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hugh Fox, Buckminster Fuller, Eugen Gomringer, Brion Gysin, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Jan J. Herman, Åke Hodell, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Kitasono Katue, Bengt af Klintberg, Alison Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Ruth Krauss, Jackson Mac Low, Robert K. Macadam, Toby MacLennan, Hansjörg Mayer, Charles McIlvaine, Richard Meltzer, Manfred Mohr, Claes Oldenburg, Pauline Oliveros, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Charles Platt, Bern Porter, Dieter Roth, Aram Saroyan, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Mary Ellen Solt, Daniel Spoerri, Gertrude Stein, André Thomkins, Wolf Vostell, and Emmett Williams.
"A Something Else Reader is a previously-unpublished anthology edited by Dick Higgins in 1972 to celebrate Something Else Press, the publishing house he founded in 1963 to showcase Fluxus and other experimental artistic and literary forms.
The publication features selections from Claes Oldenburg''s Store Days, John Cage''s Notations, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Breakthrough Fictioneers, Jackson Mac Low''s Stanzas for Iris Lezak, Gertrude Stein''s Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein, Bern Porter''s I''ve Left, Wolf Vostell''s Dé-coll/age Happenings, Al Hansen''s A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art, and other projects for the page by Robert Filliou, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Philip Corner, Daniel Spoerri, André Thomkins, and Richard Meltzer, among others. An annotated checklist assembled by Hugh Fox and Higgins''s unpublished introduction are also included." -- publishers statement.