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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
avant-garde adjective progressive, pioneering, way-out (informal), experimental, innovative, unconventional, far-out (slang), ground-breaking, innovatory avant-garde concert music conservative, traditional, conventional, reactionary, hidebound Translations avant-garde [ˈævɒŋˈgɑːd] 1. n → avanguardia 2. adj → d'avanguardia avant-garde [ˈævɒŋˈgɑːd] 1. n → avanguardia 2. adj → d'avanguardia How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was like a gauntlet dropped in the face of the depleted justifications circling around much contemporary painting--not shocking in the sense of earlier avant-gardism, but on a more direct level. Loy's most compelling representation of her 'mongrelization'--the 'cross breeding' of the English and Hungarian-Jewish strains that produced, so the author herself seems to feel, a form of mental and emotional gridlock that could be overcome in life, as in art, only by large doses of the transnational avant-gardism of the interwar period" (134). Hoover makes further claims about the marginalization of avant-gardism in general, and Mackey by extension: "In general, postmodern poetry opposes the centrist values of unity, significance, linearity, expressiveness, and a heightened, even heroic, portrayal of the bourgeois self and its concerns" (xxvii). |
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