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Fluxus

Fluxus (/ˈflʌksəs/) was an international, interdisciplinary community of visual artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who, inspired by John Cage, engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic tradition of chance-based process over the finished product. Fluxus is known for experimental contributions to…

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Early history (late 1950s to 1965)

Middle history (1965–78)

Fluxus since 1978

Fluxus art

Fluxus artists

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Fluxus

Nodes246
Edges245
Triples1029
Avg. degree1.99
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related to Selected bibliography · 246
Fluxus → Aachen Avantgarde, Abrams, Academy Editions, Action Art, Aktion Demonstration Partizipation, Al, Alexander Klar, American Art, Amherst, Annotated Bibliography, AQ, AQ-Verlag, Art, Artists' Performance, Astrit, Attitude, Ausstellung Neues Museum Weserburg, Baas, Baltimore, Baltimore County
related to Proto-performance art · 104
Fluxus → Adriano Olivetti, Anthony Cox, April, Ay-O, Ben Vautier, Bici Forbes, Bici Forbes Hendricks, Blue Room, Brecht, Capsule, Carnegie Recital Hall, Chieko Shiomi, Clinic, Cloud Scissors, Clouds Scissors, Come Impersonating John Lennon, Copies, Cox, Disappearing Music, Do It Yourself
related to Major collections and archives · 89
Fluxus → Alternative Traditions, American Friends, Art, Arts, Arts Center, Belgium, Berkeley, Blois, Bremen, Budapest, California, CaliforniaDavid Mayor/Fluxshoe/Beau Geste Press, CD, Contemporary Art, Cáceres, Dartmouth College, Detroit, Doute, EnglandDe Montfort University, EnglandFluxus Collection
related to Origins · 68
Fluxus → After, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Also, American, Arthur Cravan, As, Austria, Baroness Elsa, By, Cage, Cage's, Chambers Street, Cologne, Dada, Dada Poets, Dick Higgins, Duchamp, Duchamp's, Etude
related to Sources · 58
Fluxus → Abrams, Ann Noël, Anti-Art, Art, Attitude, Ay-O, Brecht, Buchhandlung Walther König, Collective Portrait, Cologne, Cultural History, Eine Heterospektive, Emmett Williams, End, Events, Fluxus Codex, Fluxus Feminus, George, George Brecht, George Maciunas
related to From A Neo-Dada Anthology of Chance Operations to Early Fluxus · 50
Fluxus → After, After Cage, Alison Knowles, American, An Anthology, Anthology, Après Cage, Beatitude, Beatitude East, Because, Benjamin Patterson, But, By September, Chance Operations, Coast, Dick Higgins, East Coast, Emmett Williams, Europe, From Wiesbaden
related to Inventing performance art · 40
Fluxus → AI, Akademie, Amsterdam, Art, Art Contemporain, Art Interactive, Berlin, Besides Miller's, Cambridge, Carte, Centraal Fluxus Festival, Centraal Museum, CNN, Flux Labyrinth, Flux Olympics, Fluxus Continue, For Do-it Yourself Fluxus, Geoff Hendricks' Critical Mass, George Maciunas, Greil Marcus
related to New York and the FluxShops · 34
Fluxus → After, Alison Knowles, Along, Amsterdam, April, Ay-O, Ben Vautier, By, California, Canal Street, Christo, Europe, Fluxhall, Gallery, George Brecht, Japan, John Cale, Joseph Byrd, La Monte Young, London
related to External links · 33
Fluxus → Anthology, August, Baltimore CountyFondazione Bonotto, Cage, Chance Operations, CollectionFluxus Comes Alive, Copenhagen Fluxus Archive Archived, Cáceres, Digital Collection, Discogs, Flux Year Box, FluxFilms, Fluxkit, Fluxus Audio, GermanyMuseo Vostell Malpartida, I've Got, Iowa Fluxus West Digital, January, Ken FriedmanEuropean Fluxus Festivals, Links
related to Death of George Maciunas · 29
Fluxus → Activities, After, Berkshire Mountains, Billie Hutching, Boston, Brown, Brown's, Dadaist, Dimitri Devyatkin, February, Fluxwedding, Great Barrington, In, Jean Brown, Lee, Leonard Brown, Maciunas, Massachusetts, May, Mr

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Fluxusis aindicator of this confusion0.90text
John Cageinstance ofthese Fluxfests presented work by musicians0.80text
Ligetiinstance ofthese Fluxfests presented work by musicians0.80text
Pendereckiinstance ofthese Fluxfests presented work by musicians0.80text
Terry Rileyinstance ofthese Fluxfests presented work by musicians0.80text
Brion Gysin alongside performance pieces written by Higginsinstance ofthese Fluxfests presented work by musicians0.80text
Knowlesinstance ofthese Fluxfests presented work by musicians0.80text
George Brechtinstance ofthese Fluxfests presented work by musicians0.80text
Nam June Paikinstance ofthese Fluxfests presented work by musicians0.80text
Ben Pattersoninstance ofthese Fluxfests presented work by musicians0.80text
Robert Filliouinstance ofthese Fluxfests presented work by musicians0.80text
and Emmett Williamsinstance ofthese Fluxfests presented work by musicians0.80text

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