
1) American arts magazine 2) Avant-garde art 3) Contemporary art 4) French word used in English 5) Modern art
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The avant-garde (from French, `advance guard` or `vanguard`, literally `fore-guard`) are people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics. The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The avant-garde is con...
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[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 `Peter Schjeldahl as Features Editor, Leslie M. Rockwell as Articles Editor, Lawr...
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(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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(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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(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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a play pushing the limits of convention. Example: 'Little Fears,' an avant-garde comic drama by Emanuel Peluso, 2m2f.
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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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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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New or original and often unconventional techniques, concepts, products, etc, usually associated with the arts and creative areas
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A new or experimental concept
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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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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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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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[
n] - artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time
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[
adj] - radically new or original
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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 first appeared in France in the first half of the...
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daring adjective radically new or original; `an avant-garde theater piece`
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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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new, unusual and experimental - Harry makes avant-garde electronic music in his spare time.
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the advance group in any field, esp. in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
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