Fluxus. Prima, durante, dopo

Fluxus has been called the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties. From the first appearance it has been praised, analyzed, forgotten and rediscovered many times, but still remains one of the great critical unknowns of the Art History of the twentieth century. The research develops according to a tripartite scheme: to investigate the origins and the inspirations; to place and contextualize the period of the birth and development; to examine influences and legacies. Through a comparison of manifestos, autograph texts and works has tried to verify points of contact and continuity between Fluxus and the Avant-garde, with particular reference to Futurism and Dadaism. Then the research tried to reconstruct the dynamics that led to the end of the fifties, to be defined as a fertile ground from which germinated experiences - closely related - such as Happenings, Performance Art and Fluxus as well, which it retraced the so-called "heroic years" to highlight the salient features. In the third section, several hypotheses of the Fluxus-attitude have been identified, from the historical-philological path of the early attempts of "musealization", the direct and indirect inheritance on later generations of artists, up to the identification of ideas and concepts whose actuality makes Fluxus an essential element for the understanding of contemporary culture.