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avant-garde
(redirected from avant-gardism)

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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-gardeavant-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

avant-garde [ˈævɒŋˈgɑːd]
1. navanguardia
2. adjd'avanguardia


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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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