Fluxus
international network of artists, composers and designers
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Summary
Fluxus is an art group[1]. Fluxus ranks in the top 2% of art group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,722 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Field of work: performance art[3], music[4], visual arts[5], literature[6], urban planning[7], architecture[8], design[9]
- Discoverer or inventor: George Maciunas[10]
- Influenced by: John Cage[11], Marcel Duchamp[12]
- Instance of: art movement[13]
- Founder: George Maciunas[14]
- Commons category: Fluxus[15]
- Said to be the same as: Neo-Dada[16]
- Inception: 1960[17]
- Start time: 1960[18]
- End time: 1970[19]
- Participant: Joseph Beuys[20], Dick Higgins[21], Alice Hutchins[22], Yoko Ono[23], Nam June Paik[24], Ben Vautier[25], Robert Watts[26], Ben Patterson[27], Emmett Williams[28], Alison Knowles[29]
- Topic's main category: Category:Fluxus[30]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[31]
- Member category: Category:Fluxus artists[32]
- Has works in the collection: Museum of Modern Art[33], Detroit Institute of Arts[34], Harvard Art Museums[35], Groninger Museum[36]
Why It Matters
Fluxus has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Fluxus is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]
Fluxus has been cited as an influence by mail art[39], an art movement[40], in Switzerland[41], founded in 1982[42].
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Who did Fluxus influence?
Fluxus has been cited as an influence by mail art[39].