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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-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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She quickly settled in downtown Manhattan and found herself in the milieu of theater experimentalists Ellen Stewart, Robert Wilson, and Mabou Mines, and dance avant-gardists Steve Paxton, Simone Forti, Meredith Monk, and Pooh Kaye.
Even if he hadn't lived the quintessential vie boheme--partaking of torrid affairs, carousing with fellow avant-gardists, succumbing to tuberculosis at thirtyfive--Amedeo Modigliani would be well remembered for his instantly recognizable portraits of the stylishly gaunt.
To the degree that various avant-gardists sought or claimed inspiration from or kinship to existing (or once extant) cultures, these cultures tended to be somewhere else and/or to have existed at some other time.
 
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