Child's History of Fluxus

In A Child’s History of Fluxus, Dick Higgins begins by telling of the movement’s inception around the year 1958, where a number of artists worldwide (including Higgins) began to take on a common desire to make art out of everyday acts and objects. One of these artists, La Monte, collaborated with his friend George Maciunas to create an anthology of his works, which later gave way to a magazine in which this art movement was given the name Fluxus. Higgins continues that to advertise the magazine, Fluxus concerts were created, thus adding the idea of performances besides static pieces of art.

Over the next few years, Higgins explains, Fluxus became popular around the art world. This lead to several members of the movement becoming famous and associating themselves with other, non-Fluxus people; this caused conflict in the group. But despite this, the artists’ passion for Fluxus allowed it to survive, and so the movement still exists today.