Fluxus

See also: fluxus

English

Etymology

Coined by Lithuanian American artist George Maciunas in 1961 as the title of a proposed magazine, from Latin flūxus (“flow”).

Proper noun

Fluxus

  1. An international movement of artists, poets, composers and designers of the 1960s and 1970s, noted for experimental syntheses of different media and disciplines.
    • 1976 June 25, Grace Glueck, “Art People”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      Other attractions include a documentation center for the activities of Fluxus, the wildcat group of art anarchists who have fluxed around Canal Street since the 1960's; […]

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