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Fluxus

Artistic movement that emerged in New York in the early 1960s. Yoko Ono is the best-known artist associated with the movement.

The work of Fluxus adherents, which includes film, music, dance, installations, and performance art as well as painting and sculpture, is characterized by a minimalist approach and a radical socio-political perspective, and may feature audience participation and mixed media.

Other Fluxus artists include the Lithuanian-born architect and designer George Maciunas (1931–78), who coined the movement's name in 1962, the German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys, the Korean composer Nam June Paik, and the US composers Philip Corner and La Monte Young.

Fluxus performances took place at Maciunas's New York gallery and Yoko Ono's New York studio, in 1960–61. Maciunas published the journal Fluxus in 1961, and a manifesto in 1963.



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It became a gathering place and performance venue not only for Beat writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac ("He used to bang on my guitar like a bongo drum," Poons recalls), but also for a group of young musicians and artists who had taken the composition course John Cage was teaching at the nearby New School for Social Research, among them Dick Higgins, Al Hansen, and others who would subsequently become part of the Fluxus movement.
The elder Hansen's name belongs in any history of the Fluxus movement and the ``happenings'' of the 1960s.
The parched literalism underpinning her earliest efforts found reception within the yawning indulgence that was the Fluxus movement, the sputtering bulb in the otherwise dazzling marquee that blinks: THE ART OF THE SIXTIES.
 
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