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   avant-garde

   /ˌavɒ̃ˈɡɑːd/

   noun

   • 1. new and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature: "he has been called a promoter of the avant-garde"
   • ▪ a group of artists, musicians, or writers working with new and experimental ideas and methods: "works by artists of the Russian avant-garde"

   adjective

   • 1. favouring or introducing new and experimental ideas and methods: "a controversial avant-garde composer"

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting the vanguard of an army): from French, literally ‘vanguard’. Current senses date from the early 20th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. avant-gardism noun
   • 2. avant-gardist noun

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   The meaning of AVANT-GARDE is an intelligentsia that develops new or experimental concepts especially in the arts. How to use avant-garde in a sentence.

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   THE AVANT-GARDE definition: 1. the painters, writers, musicians, and other artists whose ideas, styles, and methods are very…. Learn more.

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   Avant-garde cinema, The Love of Zero (1928), a short film directed by the artist Robert Florey [1] In the arts and literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning ' advance guard ' or ' vanguard ') identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic ...

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   THE AVANT-GARDE meaning: 1. the painters, writers, musicians, and other artists whose ideas, styles, and methods are very…. Learn more.

6. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishAVANT-GARDE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   Avant-garde art, music, theatre, and literature is very modern and experimental. ...avant-garde concert music. Avant-garde is also a noun. He was an enthusiast for the avant-garde. You can refer to the artists, writers, and musicians who introduce new and very modern ideas as the avant-garde. In Paris he made friends among the avant-garde.

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   There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun avant-garde. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   Avant-garde definition: the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.. See examples of AVANT-GARDE used in a sentence.

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   Definition of avant-garde adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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    Master the word "AVANT-GARDE" in English: definitions, translations, synonyms, pronunciations, examples, and grammar insights - all in one complete resource.

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    The term avant-garde refers to innovative or experimental concepts or works, or the group of people producing them. Pushing boundaries with his development of Cubism, Pablo Picasso was part of the early 20th-century art world’s avant-garde.