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  1. avant-gardist

    noun

    1. A person who is avant-garde or espouses avant-garde points of view.

    noun

    1. A person who is avant-garde or espouses avant-garde points of view.
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  2. merriam-webster.com

    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. ... avant-gardist. ˌä-ˌvän(t)-ˈgär-dist . ˌa-noun. avant-garde. 2 of 2 adjective: of or relating to an avant-garde. avant-garde writers. an avant-garde filmmaker. Synonyms. Noun.
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    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 ...
  4. thefreedictionary.com

    Define avant-gardist. avant-gardist synonyms, avant-gardist pronunciation, avant-gardist translation, English dictionary definition of avant-gardist. n. A group that creates or promotes innovative ideas or techniques in a given field, especially in the arts. adj. Of, relating to, or being part of an...
  5. theartstory.org

    Summary of Avant-Garde Art. Originating in military terminology, the phrase "avant-garde" was adapted to apply to the work of artists - and then taken on by artists themselves - in order to indicate the socially, politically, and culturally revolutionary potential of much modern art.From the Realism of Gustave Courbet to the genre-defying multimedia experiments of the Fluxus movement, the term ...
  6. studiobinder.com

    The avant-garde is closely tied to a battle against censorship such as the restrictions imposed by the Hays Code in the early days of Hollywood. And certain things that were once censored may now be freely expressed thanks in no small part to the movement. A contemporary view often skews or reduces the impact of once radical works of art.
  7. en.wiktionary.org

    Aug 19, 2024avant-gardist (not comparable) Related to or resembling the avant-garde. 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, "More than Horseplay", in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 72: Jackass' affinity with an avant-gardist conception of praxis and the performativity characteristic of performance.
  8. Avant-garde (fr. avant-garde — advance guard) or avant-gardism is the name of radical art movements of the 20th century. The term derives from the military vocabulary and implies the role of avant-garde artists in art as the discoverers of new art, crusaders against the traditional school of painting. ... Avant-gardist paintings:
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    In the arts and literature, the term avant-garde 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 establishment of the time. The military metaphor of an advance guard identifies the artists and writers whose innovations in style, form, and subject-matter challenge the artistic and aesthetic validity of the established forms of art and the literary traditions of their time; thus, the artists who created the anti-novel and Surrealism were ahead of their times. As a stratum of the intelligentsia of a society, avant-garde artists promote progressive and radical politics and advocate for societal reform with and through works of art. Wikipedia

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