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.

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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
Has not the poetic legacy of the avant-garde already begun to resemble a blasted library, bestrewn with the unburied cadavers of lunatics and suicides — all the beautiful, but misguided, losers who have martyred themselves to untelevised revolutions? Writing and Failure (Part 1) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
His work fuses elements of American structuralism, the narrative avant-garde and experimental documentary.
Jandek, an ultra-reclusive singer-songwriter specializing in unnervingly bleak psychodramas accompanied by an out-of-tune guitar, has been read as both incompetent and musically avant-garde.
BThe 36 acres of hilltop land were owned by Aline Barnsdall, an oil heiress who dabbled in producing avant-garde theater.
As far as avant-garde culture is concerned, there is a built-in time-lag between critical reception and popular acceptance.
Cariaga's innovative language-oriented poetry challenges the assumption that avant-garde poetics is the privileged terrain of white heterosexual male poets.
It was no wonder that the avant-garde artists and the printmakers who were rejected by the conservative Bunten, Teiten and Inten, tried to organize their own exhibitions.
The main purpose of Levin's article, however, is to reclaim Debord for the aesthetic discourse of avant-garde cinema.
Artists here have been diligently working to improve their skills, as their counterparts in Beijing continue to put forward new concepts and avant-garde ideas.
Located in prominent positions, and as official monuments lacking avant-garde credibility, they have little artistic currency.
In this sense, avant-garde sound art is already filtering into our lives unnoticed. Times, Sunday Times
Or it might have you believing the quartet roared into town like Marlon Brando and his biker gang from The Wild One, rebelling against the prevailing fashions for abstraction and avant-garde.
Kazuo Ono, 101, the co-founder of the avant-garde butoh dance school, still performs from time to time in a wheelchair.
I think that the avant-garde suggests that no poet can “rest on their laurels” for very long without reinventing the future of poetry itself — and hence, the avant-garde has often seen the need to revisit the neglected, unexalted techniques of writing for overlooked potentials …. 2007 September : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2
With the latter choice, the firm was clearly responding to the increasingly avant-garde taste of the time, for by 1930 metal simulating wood was considered by style critics to be ‘a mongrel form, dishonest and unbeautiful.’
Elements of surrealism and cubism, influences of the European avant-garde art movements of high modernism are all in evidence in this striking poem.
Independent and entrepreneurial, coworkers are essentially pioneering an entirely new way of working that conventional businesses often interpret as avant-garde.
Adams is deeply interested in the broader musical dimensions of culture, how pop music and classical music coexist and sometimes cross-fertilize, how composers need audience feedback, how musical generations succeed one another and how some artists will fight quixotic battles to their dying day, holding true to avant-garde orthodoxy no matter how isolating it is. A conversation with John Adams, composer and so much else
Where the show really excites is in the display of avant-garde photography.
Today the concept of a pedestrian-friendly, densely built community of wood-frame cottages with front porches and picket fences hardly seems avant-garde.
Their great finesse and qualities of ensemble were displayed in works ranging from Elizabethan consort music to the Hungarian avant-garde.
Casual wear, evening dresses, classical gowns and avant-garde bra-style tops are all denim.
The band was originally founded in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire (UK), in 1979, as a four-piece avant-garde instrumental group, called Art Nouveau, with Nick Beggs on bass guitar, Side-Line news feed
It was the innocence and charm of his work that won him the admiration of the avant-garde.
Avoiding the influence of Picasso's cubism in any form, O'Keeffe epitomized the independence of the American avant-garde.
The spirit of Dada and the other avant-garde art movements was forged in the trenches of World War One.
So avant-garde musicians naturally line up with the dissidents. Times, Sunday Times
His avant-garde music, sometime cousin to jazz, had limited appeal.
One of the strong currents found within the avant-garde art movement was that of a certain fascination with "primitivism", which looked to non-European sources for inspiration and which was significantly rooted in a rejection of more traditional Western forms of art. Continuity, Beauty and Dignity within the Liturgical Arts and their Development
Avant-garde theatre all too often not only trashes classical scripts, but also reduces the actors to ventriloquist's dummies for some directorial message.
The critic Greenberg acknowledged the ambiguous position the avant-garde would need to maintain with its patrons.
The movement to merge art with daily social life is the legacy of the revolutionary avant-garde, a legacy that is bound to the rise of technological invention in modern society.
Thursday night, avant-garde mixologist Eben Freeman, formerly of the restaurant Tailor and currently Director of Bar Operations & Innovation for Chef Michael White's Altamarea group, will guest bartend at West Village bar pop-up Fatty Johnson's. Behind The Scenes Of Mixologist Eben Freeman's Signature Cocktail
They range from the unapologetically avant-garde ( "Foot Under Foot," which opens the session), to the pungent and fractured ( "Skitter In") to the affirmingly lugubrious ( "The Sun at Midnight"). What's Elliptical Is New Again
It was one of the first avant-garde works to appeal to a wide audience.
The first Documenta exhibition signified Germany's reacceptance of avant-garde art, which had been banned by the Nazis as degenerate.
In the second period, Balada's music was very abstract and dramatic, without melodic inflection and with a heavy reliance on avant-garde effects.
Nor does it seem to chafe my reviewers that avant-garde types like Gauguin, Degas, and Puvis de Chavannes were political reactionaries or that pompiers like Gleyre, Delaroche, and Couture held progressive views at various stages in their careers. 'The Unhappy Medium': An Exchange
But avant-garde venues were often remiss even in this.
Ross's Maoist back-to-nature fantasies were hitched to theories filched from the 1960s architectural avant-garde.
April will see another French classic, Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, in a more avant-garde production with eccentric sets and costumes supplied by Portland Opera.
Every ambitious 19th-century show, especially in the area of Impessionism and post-Impressionism, has been obliged to borrow from this fabulous trove of avant-garde painting.
Other avant-garde chefs go overboard with such devices as offering odors to be sniffed, blindfolding customers, or dispensing food with syringes; this was our meal's only foray into combinations of smells and tastes.
But the drapey, longer-at-the-front cardigan is the way forward: versatile, camouflaging and ever-so-slightly avant-garde. Times, Sunday Times
He had the uncommon ability to absorb avant-garde styles into his own. Times, Sunday Times
The exhibition was extraordinary for its size and status as a landmark in the context of introducing European avant-garde art to the United States.
His vision was riveted to one vanishing point on a particular horizon, and that was the story of avant-garde art.
To this end, she mines the unlikely genre of amateur portraiture, not the legacy of the modernist avant-garde, creating idiosyncratic works, as alluring as they are critical.
She works as a docent at the Art Car Museum, an avant-garde gallery in Houston.
Khardzhiev's seemingly unassailable authority stemmed, of course, from his personal knowledge of many of the key figures of the avant-garde.
There's been some talk in the past few years about ‘avant-garde’ poetry and the sacred, and about the potential concordances between idiosyncratic compositional approaches and spiritual practices.
Even during the brief periods of thaw there was little space for innovation, critique, or the avant-garde.
The Soviet avant-garde experimented with photography, photomontage, film, architecture and design for everyday living.
The dynamic stillness between particle and wave is where we confront the wavicle: an awareness of the imperceptibility of the power of the symbol delivering a new aesthetic to the avant-garde. Lisa Paul Streitfeld: Modernist (R)evolution in Performance: Ralph Lemon's Middle Passage
The main purpose of Levin's article, however, is to reclaim Debord for the aesthetic discourse of avant-garde cinema.
Some products of the avant-garde keep their edge longer than others-Joyce, Picasso and Schonberg still have the capacity to shock after nearly a century.
Part raconteuse, part avant-garde musician, and part social commentator, she provides nourishment to a diverse audience with equal measures of irony and tenderness.
"This is a song I wrote when I was eight" says the swivel-eyed frontman before howling something decidedly avant-garde, his face and legs vibrating like he's being tasered.
The critic Greenberg acknowledged the ambiguous position the avant-garde would need to maintain with its patrons.
He is a London-based independent curator of experimental, avant-garde, and artists' film and video.
According to Wikipedia, the term "indie" is generally defined as being "independent from mainstream" - a subculture of non-conformity, avant-garde (novels/experimental), and not a small amount of elitism. June 27th, 2006
Ad Reinhardt publicly referred to Barnett Newman as "the avant-garde-huckster-handicraftsman and educational shopkeeper" and castigated his "transcendental nonsense. Daniel Grant: There's a Lot of Backbiting Among Artists
This show made it clear that before he became a titan of avant-garde theater, Beck was a painter of force and poetic invention.
I got into medieval music and the avant-garde, all the fringe stuff that people didn't like, the punk rock of classical music.
Take away the antipathic stench that surrounds the word avant-garde, and you are still left with cutting-edge practices relevant to the current condition. lichanos The Aporias of the Avant-Garde « Jahsonic
When someone says they're seeking avant-garde people, does that just mean that they're looking for pretentious people, or is this nomenclature something I don't quite entirely understand?
The rooms are spacious and avant-garde in decor and the service discreet but attentive.
Or one can question whether the cool, objectivizing aesthetic of the avant-garde ever really was.
The lights focus in on the stage to highlight the sinuous muscles of the three men rising and turning in an avant-garde mix of movement over break beat.
It could be 1961, or 1949, with the avant-garde wearing berets and reciting poetry.
They represent the avant-garde neoclassicism of Paris in the 1770s when Alexander Stroganoff was forming his collection.
The post-modernist movement challenged the Modernist notion of the avant-garde.
West Berlin's theatres are often avant-garde and experimental; those in the east have tended towards more classical interpretations.
The exhibition, which opens in February, and brings together works by Mondrian and Nicholson originally shown in the same galleries, examines a little-known period of Mondrian's life in the late 1930s when he lived for two years in a bedsit in Hampstead, north London, and socialised with Nicholson, his first and second wives Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and other avant-garde British artists. Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works
Refuge is a terrifying journey into avant-garde, subtly thematic territory.
His avant-garde music, sometime cousin to jazz, had limited appeal.
It charts how a politically avant-garde movement turned into a commercial style that still influences designers today. Times, Sunday Times
He quotes Adorno in the essay, and like Adorno, he plays it safe by attaching himself to the contemporary establishment avant-garde.
In Levin's essay, avant-garde cinema is assimilated into the wider discourse of Modernist art despite their material and institutional differences.
Numerous art historians responded to Hockney's proposal with suspicious stupefaction, as if this avant-garde upstart were accusing the old masters of painting by numbers.
Is it an earnest appreciation of the avant-garde or just eyeballing a freak show?
During the 1960s he experimented with various avant-garde ideas and techniques formerly forbidden in the USSR.
This is the American theatre and opera director - weaned on the avant-garde, marinated in the aesthetics of southeast Asia - who became famous working with Disney on The Lion King.
This genre intersects the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based installations, net art, software art, and netspeak.
I might suggest that the work of Goldsmith demonstrates the degree to which the most conventional conversation already offers us, readymade, a radical grammar, as asyntactic and as asemantic as any literature by the avant-garde itself — and as a result, Goldsmith has said that he can no longer listen to dialogue in films, plays, or poems, because it sounds completely artificial in the wake of such analysis. Poetic Machines 04 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
It is set at the intersections of the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based electronic installation art, net art and software art.
Taking on rock, jazz, blues, avant-garde, classical, doo-wop and all the other styles he incorporated in his compositions, they take it all in their stride and play just how he would have liked it.
Foreboding and intriguing, the grand, exoskeletal structure has served as the avant-garde capital of Valencian arts culture since its completion, in 2005. A Whale of a Festival Debuts in Europe: Vanity Fair
This ethics of language, so central to Barthes's promotion of the avant-garde, may help to account for a puzzling feature of his criticism.
Finally, there is the dialogue of vision, an exchange between ‘authentic’ values and avant-garde ideas.
Influenced by the avant-garde jewellery art scene in Germany, her designs go beyond functional accessory into the realm of individual self-expression.
Have they moved on, embraced their sensitive avant-garde side and become aficionados of Animal Collective and their ilk, or are they still out there, preserved in aspic, lager in hand, just waiting for the right anthemic guitar-based noise to bring them back to life? Brother (No 880)
The key early figures in the development of the Chicago avant-garde -- pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, saxophonist Fred Anderson, reedman Anthony Braxton and the members of the group the Art Ensemble of Chicago -- tended toward a quieter, more contemplative sound than the raucous dissonance often heard in New York avant-garde jazz circles, and they started The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Chicago's Avant-Garde Musicians
He was known internationally for organizing numerous influential traveling exhibitions and for introducing to the mainstream many key avant-garde artists.
‘They are our avant-garde,’ Allen wrote, ‘the true continuers of the modern movement in American poetry’.
Where the show really excites is in the display of avant-garde photography.
The relativist paradigm of the twentieth century has determined the form of our avant-garde literature.
In the early Sixties she was still in the avant-garde, having abandoned St. Tropez to follow a guru to California, where she changed her name to Jane.
A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, B.S. Johnson gained notoriety for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice.
An avant-garde version of Ashlee Simpson, Thomas alternated between banshee wails and guttural growls to pre-recorded noise, while windmilling her arm to sometimes strike the strings of her guitar.
But what is new about young designers experimenting with avant-garde shapes? Times, Sunday Times
The film is about an avant-garde composer in the last century, and as you might expect, it's filled with his music.
But then, my project has always been to bring the smells of the barbeque to the world of the avant-garde.
Was it this, the sense of art as supreme sacrifice, which appealed so strongly to Western romanticism and the avant-garde?
For the audience it began as an exercise in avant-garde arts and crafts. Times, Sunday Times
Twenty-five years ago he was enthroned as the guru of the avant-garde; today he is isolated, some would say megalomaniac.
Every year it brings together an eclectic artistic mix of professionals and amateurs, traditional and avant-garde, young and old, British and international, sculptors, painters, architects, printmakers.
Shipp has also introduced a fascinating wild card: the largely overlooked vibraphonist Khan Jamal, who has worked with such legends of the avant-garde as drummer Sunny Murray and Sun Ra.
Only avant-garde practice that turns its back against the established collections of good taste can take up and re-collect the discarded.
The idea was to synthesise the avant-garde cubist vision of modernity with the high forms of opera and ballet that still dominated French bourgeois taste.
As far as avant-garde culture is concerned, there is a built-in time-lag between critical reception and popular acceptance.
A prodigy and a polymath, he first came to notice as ‘the bad boy of music’ in the Twenties Paris avant-garde, associated with Pound.
For the audience it began as an exercise in avant-garde arts and crafts. Times, Sunday Times
The parallels to contemporaneous avant-garde film-makers and artists is striking.
He had the uncommon ability to absorb avant-garde styles into his own. Times, Sunday Times
The earlier film culture manifested a proximity to the avant-garde, the rebel.
Cultural criticism, by contrast, not only valorizes the refractoriness, opacity, and allusive metaphoricity of the avant-garde aesthetic, it also incarnates these same qualities.
They are champions of the avant-garde, which explains how they come to be marooned for a fortnight in a chateau in the middle of a Belgian forest rehearsing a piece called Partitum Mutande.
Who can forget the quaint accounts of small coteries of European avant-garde artists who, in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, appropriated formal elements of Japanese ukiyo-e prints and African masks in their painting and sculpture. G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture
Through the use of daylight and a tensioned Lycra material that is digitally patterned and custom-tailored for the space, a 10 by 10 off-the-shelf marquee is transformed into a space that the press describes as an “avant-garde environment not of this earth”. Moët & Chandon Marquee by PTW Architects
The Soviet avant-garde experimented with photography, photomontage, film, architecture and design for everyday living.
Or perhaps a better word would be immiscible: for some of the best avant-garde art has precisely that oil-and-water-y quality. Art
If this sounds like European avant-garde theatre at its most off-puttingly modish, the effect is in fact kookily funny and coolly self-aware. Thomas Ostermeier: 'Hamlet? The play's a mess'
Konig spent much of the 1970s in North America, where he established close ties with the leading artists of the avant-garde.
In his role as a chief engineer of flarf, Gardner has been viewed as precisely the kind of militarist any definition of avant-garde would imply. Jordan Davis reads Drew Gardner
Nothing, though, should take away from this phenomenal work of outsider art, a neo-avant-garde exercise in bodyshock violence that features an unknown cast and dialogue in Latin and Aramaic.
There was no avant-garde art any more, there was no more experimental drama any more.
Although Picasso spent much of his career in the avant-garde capital city of Paris, he had a strong emotional and cultural connection to his Spanish roots.
It wasn't especially avant-garde, per se, but it demonstrated her ability to take a simple design and make it all the more special without vulgarizing the base design vision.
These were from early baroque to the enlightenment, and again from the beginning of the twentieth century to the avant-garde.
Whether it is funky or elegantly dreamy, avant-garde designs and expressive concepts in eyewear continue to attract modern men and women.
His avant-garde music, sometime cousin to jazz, had limited appeal.
It restores a classic French tradition allowing modern perfumeries to offer the associated benefits of avant-garde luxury, respect for environment and a very personalised service.
They were a remarkable couple, forward-thinking patrons of the arts who throughout their lives supported the avant-garde in art and architecture.
Burgon's right on a cusp: stodgy, well-built traditional orchestration on one hand, weirdo avant-garderies and period electronics on the other.
The constant punning and allusions through sampling naturally makes them literate in the most unpretentious manner I have heard and seen out of a group so avant-garde.
An additional contradiction of avant-garde culture is its distant relationship to the masses.
When the lectures were first delivered, Bernstein's rejection of atonal music deeply offended many avant-garde composers.
He was an unreconstructed revolutionary who remained true to his avant-garde instincts through more than half a century of making work. Times, Sunday Times
And yet, this manages not to come across as math, and only barely sounds like an avant-garde experiment.
As legend has it, the notoriously unchaste Prince wished to get to know Mrs. Potter in a more intimate setting, but first he encouraged Mr. Potter to order an avant-garde tailless dinner jacket especially for the trip. Off With Their Coattails
The results included muddled avant-garde theatrical staging techniques and insensitive and maladroit portraits of African Americans.
Moreover, the increasing academicization of the avant-garde has led to the same kinds of unthinking acceptance and moralizing certitude that once bolstered salon and pompier painting.
This cult of violent revolution is not limited to creative types; it reaches into avant-garde executive suites.
“Monsier Girou is what we might call an avant-garde astronomer,” he said. The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
I might suggest that the work of Goldsmith demonstrates the degree to which the most conventional conversation already offers us, readymade, a radical grammar, as asyntactic and as asemantic as any literature by the avant-garde itself — and as a result, Goldsmith has said that he can no longer listen to dialogue in films, plays, or poems, because it sounds completely artificial in the wake of such analysis. Poetic Machines 04 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Almost painfully avant-garde in style, it nevertheless remains a landmark in post-Soviet literature.
There was a time when those young designers wallowed in grunge and everything was mad avant-garde.
His avant-garde music, sometime cousin to jazz, had limited appeal.
One represents the aestheticism of the academy, the other the avant-garde faith in innovation and progression.
Stockhausen Serves Imperialism" was published in 1974 and contained his rationale for switching from avant-garde composition - which he characterized as elitist - to more folk based writing. Undefined
In the war the surrealists had been exiled to Manhattan and brought with them an idea of avant-garde cinema.
The styles change, from tribal rhythms and orchestral maneuvers to avant-garde rock fusion; but the impulse toward expression remains constant.
Cartier commissioned avant-garde Italian architect Ettore Sottsass to curate the exhibit and design the showcases.
Once seen as avant-garde, these thirtysomethings are now at the core of the modern art world.
Composers, editors, directors and writers, anyone who was respected in the avant-garde of the Hurrion arts seemed in attendance.
These were based on texts by Prevert, Schwitters and Artaud, all artists of the modernist avant-garde.
It was one of the first avant-garde works to appeal to a wide audience.
If some music is uncategorizable, the music of saxophonist and composer Roy Nathanson inspires deep thinkers to exhaust their thesauri dreaming up all kinds of categories: postmodern, eclectic, psychedelic jazz, avant-garde, punk jazz, gonzo jazz all right, I made up that one; he also played with the Lounge Lizards, purveyors of "fake jazz. Refining Classic Sounds
I've seen him do some pretty avant-garde things with sriracha and bologna. Jill Donenfeld: Zola Jesus Rocks to Chocolate
The avant-garde, therefore, has little choice but to cultivate a kind of recalcitrance in the face of its own potential successes, doing its best, wherever possible, to test the limits of such tolerant approval. Writing and Failure (Part 5) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
French label Burning Emptiness stand alone at the vanguard of anything and everything lo-fi, avant-garde, techno, or just plain and simple noise.
Clubbiness and nostalgia have sunk the avant-garde as surely as bad writing and self-indulgence.
Although she likes avant-garde music, Lydia also plays classical guitar and piano.
He was also, in his time, a superb ringmaster of French culture and the avant-garde.
My poetic revelation occurred in the last stages of modernism, when the various schools of the avant-garde were beginning to appear in Latin America.
The re-emergence of the avant-garde, modernism's trope par excellence, marks the return of the repressed in contemporary art.
This genre intersects the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based installations, net art, software art, and netspeak.
As those progenitors of the contemporary avant-garde, The Futurists, so famously encouraged in the years leading up to WWI, Byrd casts her analogic net so widely it convincingly illuminates the interrelationship between mind and body, subject and object, ego and environment. Seth Abramson: February 2012 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
Just because the avant-garde were exploring new forms of musical experience doesn't mean that the experiences themselves are only meaningful in terms of the specific techniques for bringing them about.
Rather than being seen as tacky, it was fêted as being terribly avant-garde. Times, Sunday Times
Contemporary art practice has found various uses for avant-garde culture.
The rather scattered approach turns what could have been a compelling, avant-garde look into the ideas of a great thinker into a rather uneven experience.
The Arab avant-garde was carefully muzzled and its rowdiest members sent off, willingly or unwillingly, to London and Paris.
His early essays were scattered in obscure scholarly journals and avant-garde reviews. The Passion of Michel Foucault
At that time at Olympic, I was doing avant-garde jazz, experimenting, trying all of these different things.
The most prestigious traditional Bohemian glass decoration, Tiefschnit, or deep, intaglio carving, was also adopted by the artists of the avant-garde.
West Berlin's theatres are often avant-garde and experimental; those in the east have tended towards more classical interpretations.
They were partners in an art gallery that specialized in avant-garde paintings by young artists.
So much modern graphic design traces its roots back to the typographic innovations of the avant-garde work of early Soviet designers like Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Stepanova and the Stenberg Brothers.
Christopher's ballets demonstrate a strong musicality and romanticism, which the choreographer says sets him apart from his more avant-garde contemporaries.
Every day they flood in, albums full of talent, hard work and innovation: avant-garde hustlers, master musicians, rule breakers, inventors and brand-new-sound-makers.
By the mid '70s, most of these regional experimentalists had relocated to New York and were dominating the avant-garde jazz scene.
An exploration of work of the Polish avant-garde performance artist. Times, Sunday Times
The intelligentsia's passion was for the avant-garde - the green and growing extremities of culture rather than the dead wood of tradition.
They were not merely brilliant musicians fusing avant-garde influences with rhythm and blues music. Times, Sunday Times
Whatever his name, he is an authentic avant-garde performance artist who has reinvented the art of the piano-bar entertainer in the goofiest way imaginable. Sing Us a Song at the Bar
No one will be dragged from their beds and forced to wear collared shirts or attend avant-garde theater productions in Tibetan restaurant stairwells or serve rumaki at backyard barbecues. Will Durst: Flag Raising Robester
The most prestigious traditional Bohemian glass decoration, Tiefschnit, or deep, intaglio carving, was also adopted by the artists of the avant-garde.
It marks the coming together of an increasingly internationally minded avant-garde theatre scene.

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