Look up: avant-garde

1. avant garde
   [n] - artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time
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2. Avant Garde
   (from the article `graphic design`) ...dot of the exclamation point, uses ligatures (two or more letters combined into one form) and alternate characters to form a tightly compressed ...
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3. Avant Garde
   (from the article `graphic design`) ...overlapped, or slanted. Lubalin`s ability to make powerful visual communications solely with type is seen in a 1968 announcement for an antiwar ...
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4. Avant Garde
   (band) `Avant Garde` (later renamed `Zoom`) was a progressive metal band most notable as an early musical project of Rivers Cuomo, who would later gain worldwide fame as the frontman of the alternative rock band Weezer. At the time, Cuomo performed under the name Peter Kitts.<ref name=&quo...
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5. Avant Garde
   (magazine) . `Avant Garde` was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. The magazine had 14 issues and was published from January 1968 to July 1971. The editor was Ralph Ginzburg. Avant Garde 3 published in May 1968 lists in the masthead <blockquote> "Peter ...
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6. avant-garde
   a play pushing the limits of convention. Example: 'Little Fears,' an avant-garde comic drama by Emanuel Peluso, 2m2f.
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7. avant-garde
   [adj] - radically new or original
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8. Avant-Garde
   French term meaning at the forefront. Art which is innovative and producing new ideas and subject matter. First appeared in France during nineteenth century and is usually credited to Henri de Saint-Simon. He believed in the social power of the arts and regarded artists, alongside scientists and industrialists, as the leaders of a new society.
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9. Avant-Garde
   A new or experimental concept
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10. Avant-garde
    Originally a French term, meaning in English, vanguard or advance guard (the part of an army that goes forward ahead of the rest). Applied to art, means that which is in the forefront, is innovatory, which introduces and explores new forms and in some cases new subject matter. In this sense the term...
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11. avant-garde
    daring adjective radically new or original; `an avant-garde theater piece`
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12. avant-garde
    noun any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
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13. avant-garde
    (from the article `United States`) ...was merely difficult. Much of the new art and dance seemed puzzling and deliberately obscure. Difficult art happened, above all, in New York City. ... Painter Gustave Courbet`s rebellious Realism was the case par excellence of new avant-gardism that threw off the centuries-old debate between ... ...
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14. Avant-Garde
    A group active in the invention and application of new ideas and techniques in an original or experimental way. A group of practitioners and/or advocates of a new art form may also be called avant-garde. Some avant-garde works are intended to shock those who are accustomed to traditional, established styles.
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15. avant-garde
    In the arts, those artists or works that are in the forefront of new developments in their media. The term was introduced (as was `reactionary`) after the French Revolution, when it was used to describe any socialist political movement
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16. Avant-garde
    French for vanguard. Artists and their work which stand in the forefront of new ideas, often in opposition to established ideas and traditions; art that's ahead of its time, innovative, experimental. The modern era has invariably had a flourishing avant-garde, but many have said it is no longer possible in a postmodern era. The bourgeoisie, onc...
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17. AVANT-GARDE
    A group active in the invention and application of new ideas and techniques in an original or experimental way. A group of practitioners and/or advocates of a new art form may also be called avant-garde. Some avant-garde works are intended to shock those who are accustomed to traditional, established styles.
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18. avant-garde
    French for advance guard" or "vanguard." Those considered the leaders (and often regarded as radicals) in the invention and application of new concepts in a given field.
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19. Avant-Garde
    (DVD collection) `Avant-Garde` is a DVD-series with experimental films released by Kino International. Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s: `Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s` is a 2-disc, 6-hour DVD collection, released in August 2005 by Kino Intern...
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20. Avante-Garde
    Technically the term refers to German and French film movements in the 1920s and 1930s that experimented with movements of light and geometric shapes. Avante garde, conceptually, is now linked with any unconventional, experimental, or, non-narrative complexes in film. Styles which have affected avan...
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21. Avantgarde
    (band) `Avantgarde` is an indie rock band based in Spain. Avantgarde is a Indie-Pop Spanish band from Madrid, They scored two albums and they were touring across Spain and Portugal with the in Deluxe. Discography: Albums: Singles: External links:
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