avant-garde

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1. avant-garde - Noun

2. avant-garde - Adjective

3. avant-garde - Phrase

4. avant-garde - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

radically new or original

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The avant-garde makes more sense to me. John Cale

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. Herbert Marcuse

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it. Anton Chekhov

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end. Clement Greenberg

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. Neville Marriner

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really. Robert Wyatt

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