Fluxus
Proper noun
Meaning
Fluxus
An international movement of artists, poets, composers and designers of the 1960s and 1970s, noted for experimental syntheses of different media and disciplines.
Examples
Andreas Huyssen, Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia, Routledge, 1995. p. 192. ISBN 0-415-90934-1 Instead he sees Fluxus as a major Neo-Dadaist phenomena within the avant-garde tradition.
In it, she explored slightly more conventional psychedelic rock with tracks including "Midsummer New York" and "Mind Train", in addition to a number of Fluxus experiments.
Fluxus encouraged a do-it-yourself aesthetic and valued simplicity over complexity.
Fluxus artists preferred to work with whatever materials were at hand, and either created their own work or collaborated in the creation process with their colleagues.
Fluxus traces its beginnings to John Cage 's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition classes at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
In his bold and wide-ranging experiments he can be seen as the grandfather of Pop Art, Happenings, Concept Art, Fluxus, multimedia art and post-modernism."