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Fluxus Movement

Historical And Literary Periods
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

An international avant-garde movement in the 1960s-1970s emphasizing experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and rejection of art commodification. Associated with artists like Yoko Ono and George Maciunas, profoundly challenging artistic conventions.

Detailed Definition
The Fluxus Movement influenced poetry through radical formal experimentation and rejection of traditional literary boundaries. Poets engaged with visual art, performance, and non-traditional materials. This movement appears in poetry through concrete poetry and visual experimentation, performance poetry, use of non-textual elements, conceptual approaches to meaning-making, rejection of market commodity status, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the assertion of art as process and experience rather than finished product.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem consisting of only instructions for a mundane but playfully absurd action (e.g., 'Take a bucket of water and pour it onto a piano'), embodying the spirit of the Fluxus Movement; A work that uses found language, everyday objects, or unconventional typography to challenge the definition of art and poetry; A performance poem based on chance operations and audience participation; A 'score' for a non-traditional sound or textual event.
Additional Notes
The Fluxus Movement (1960s) merged performance, visual art, and poetry to dissolve boundaries between art and life. Poets used chance, humour, and multimedia experimentation to challenge elitist aesthetics, influencing later conceptual and digital poetry.
Also Known As
Fluxus Fluxus Movement Era
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