avant-garde
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- noun
- /ˌævɑ̃ˈɡɑrd/
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vanguardia
- Rather than being members of the avant-garde themselves, Barnes and Olsson served as interpreters for the masses.
- avant-garde artists
- avant-garde art
- avant-garde film
Jean Renoir grew up in an atmosphere of avant-garde, almost avant-garde frenzy.
- Jean Renoir grew up in an atmosphere of avant-garde, almost avant-garde frenzy.
Examples
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Like pinup girls flirting with the camera, the two avant-garde dancers preened and posed.
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The avant-garde literature group met weekly to discuss innovative writing styles and experimental narratives.
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So avant-garde cooking goes back to this very first day.
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One was the already strong interest of avant-garde artists in African art.
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In all kinds of alternative art spaces, avant-garde performance was also increasingly being presented simply as performance.
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In essence, Club Fuck! was the avant-garde of nightclubs and a nursery for art in its time.
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The problem, as Kramer notes, is that the avant-garde has become a casualty of its own success.
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As a historical concept, modernism refers to the era of the avant-garde in the twentieth century.
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Born as a child of Romanticism, the artistic avant-garde developed in a heady atmosphere of newfound freedom.
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Emmanuel Radnitsky was a Jewish tailor son from Brooklyn, NY, who reinvented himself as the avant-garde artist Man Ray.
Synonyms
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7.2
People at the front leading a movement or new idea
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A group of artists or writers who introduce new ideas and styles
Antonyms
How Innovative
Surface Forms
Etymology
Avant-garde comes from French words avant 'before' and garde 'guard', meaning the soldiers who go in front. A helpful image is to think of the avant-garde as the 'front' group of artists who lead and try new ideas, like the English word vanguard.