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avant-garde
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a·vant-garde  vänt-gärd, vänt-)
n.
A group active in the invention and application of new techniques in a given field, especially in the arts.
adj.
Of, relating to, or being part of an innovative group, especially one in the arts: avant-garde painters; an avant-garde theater piece.

[French, from Old French, vanguard; see vanguard.]

avant-gardism n.
avant-gardist n.

avant-garde [ˌævɒŋˈgɑːd (French) avɑ̃gard]
n
those artists, writers, musicians, etc., whose techniques and ideas are markedly experimental or in advance of those generally accepted
adj
1. of such artists, etc., their ideas, or techniques
2. radical; daring
[from French: vanguard]
avant-gardism  n
avant-gardist  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.avant-garde - any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
art movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles
Adj.1.avant-garde - radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece"
original - being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind"

avant-garde
Translations
avant-garde [ˈævɑːŋˈgɑːd]
A. ADJvanguardista, de vanguardia
B. Nvanguardia f
avant-garde [ˌævɒŋˈgɑːrd] adjd'avant-garde
avant-garde
nAvantgarde f
avant-garde [ˈævɒŋˈgɑːd]
1. navanguardia
2. adjd'avanguardia


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15) By becoming the very symptom of this intellectual crisis this new avantgarde art hoped to maintain a connection to the social milieu from which it springs.
Rejecting conventional business practices, Wilson and company ran Factory Records like an avantgarde art movement: With its groundbreaking graphic design and cryptic references to the Situationist International, it would forever change the landscape for independent labels.
Although Monet's works made after the mid 1880s, when more controversial avantgarde art had moved away from Impressionism, were praised extravagantly by critics and avidly sought after by turn-of-the century collectors, they have not been included in the standard history of 20th-century art, which traces a rapid succession of breakthrough modes.
 
 
 
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