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/əˈvɑnˈɡɑɹd, əˈvɑntˈɡɑɹd/
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ADJECTIVE
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radically new or original
an avant-garde theater piece
NOUN
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
How To Use avant-garde In A Sentence
- But the avant-garde has found support for its imaginative approach from such sciences as biology.
- It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
- Dance music, of course, was never a single tradition, and that was its strength - the ability to draw on anything from African classical music to European avant-garde.
- From plastic abstraction to documentary reportage, from psychic investigation to political pamphleteering, from the autobiographical essay to a demonstration of the powers of montage, from graphic and textural work to militant revindication - Whitehead's work accomplishes an exceptional synthesis, open to every different dimension of avant-garde cinema, tending towards percpetual explosion and euphoric fusion with phenomena. GreenCine Daily: Rouge. 10.
- This transition from home to the centre of the avant-garde is omnipresent in her painting style.
- I also recommend the disc for those who love avant-garde, experimental filmmaking.
- These included many associated with the modernist avant-garde, who worked in a variety of media.
- Cassirer's gallery exhibited avant-garde art as early as 1895.
- Mr. Arcangel seems guided by a somewhat callow faith in the avant-garde, striving to perpetuate its tradition, dating from Duchamp, of laying claim to new areas of nonart for art's sake. NYT > Home Page
- Thus, although Greenberg champions avant-garde abstract artists, his is not the more rational avant-garde aesthetic of, for example, the Soviet Constructivists (e.g. Malevich, Popova, Rodchenko and Rozanova), or that of Mondrian, but a mystical one that suited his denegation of exact knowledge better. Political Affairs Magazine