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Definition of Avant-garde

1. Noun. Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts).

2. Adjective. Radically new or original. "An avant-garde theater piece"

Definition of Avant-garde

1. Noun. (obsolete) The vanguard of an army or other force. ¹

2. Noun. Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts. ¹

3. Adjective. Innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avant-garde

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Literary usage of Avant-garde

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"With this article Greenberg invigorated the notion of an avant-garde and provided ... Greenberg proposed that artists have produced an "avant-garde culture. ..."

2. Latin America Today by Pablo González Casanova (1993)
"Depending on the circumstances, this vehicle or avant-garde takes the form of a party, a political movement, or a political front. ..."

3. Joseph Csáky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture by Edith Balas (1998)
"When a radical avant-garde then was formed in Budapest after 1918, ... Likewise, as these Hungarian and other Central European avant-garde artists found ..."

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