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Fluxus

Fluxus proper noun: an international movement of artists, poets, composers and designers of the 1960s and 1970s, noted for experimental syntheses of different media and disciplines.

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.
    • 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; […]1976 June 25, Grace Glueck, “Art People”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin of Fluxus

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

Questions about Fluxus

What does Fluxus mean?
Fluxus means an international movement of artists, poets, composers and designers of the 1960s and 1970s, noted for experimental syntheses of different media and disciplines.
What part of speech is Fluxus?
Fluxus is a proper noun.

Words near Fluxus in the dictionary

  1. fluxuates
  2. fluxuating
  3. fluxuation
  4. fluxuations
  5. fluxure
  6. Fluxus
  7. fluxweed
  8. fluxy
  9. fluyt
  10. fluyts
  11. fly

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