Definition of avant-garde in English:

avant-garde

noun ˌavɒ̃ˈɡɑːdˌævɑntˈɡɑrd

usually the avant-garde

1New and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature.
he has been called a promoter of the avant-garde
Example sentencesExamples
- This ethics of language, so central to Barthes's promotion of the avant-garde, may help to account for a puzzling feature of his criticism.
- The city has a reputation for being the one place where rock music and the avant-garde have merged with results that are spectacular rather than excruciating.
- There's so much great music in the world, from jazz, to Mozart, to rock, to French Impressionism, to folk music, the avant-garde, etc.
- Ives may have sympathised with progressive ideas and there are occasional glimpses of the avant-garde in the Art Palace selection.
- This is the American theatre and opera director - weaned on the avant-garde, marinated in the aesthetics of southeast Asia - who became famous working with Disney on The Lion King.
- Or one can question whether the cool, objectivizing aesthetic of the avant-garde ever really was.
- Dance music, of course, was never a single tradition, and that was its strength - the ability to draw on anything from African classical music to European avant-garde.
- For all its pretensions towards reinvention, Glasgow remained deeply suspicious of the avant-garde.
- It is set at the intersections of the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based electronic installation art, net art and software art.
- Experimentation, the avant-garde, suddenly becomes something barbarous and ineffective.
- I got into medieval music and the avant-garde, all the fringe stuff that people didn't like, the punk rock of classical music.
- Even during the brief periods of thaw there was little space for innovation, critique, or the avant-garde.
- This genre intersects the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based installations, net art, software art, and netspeak.
- The post-modernist movement challenged the Modernist notion of the avant-garde.
- They were a remarkable couple, forward-thinking patrons of the arts who throughout their lives supported the avant-garde in art and architecture.
- With modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernists reject realism, mimesis, and linear forms of narrative.
- A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, B.S. Johnson gained notoriety for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice.
- He is maybe a bit like the great Serge Gainsbourg, who was also mixing pop music and the avant-garde.
- The re-emergence of the avant-garde, modernism's trope par excellence, marks the return of the repressed in contemporary art.
- They are champions of the avant-garde, which explains how they come to be marooned for a fortnight in a chateau in the middle of a Belgian forest rehearsing a piece called Partitum Mutande.
1. 1.1 A group of artists, musicians, or writers working with new and experimental ideas and methods.
  works by artists of the Russian avant-garde
  俄国先锋派艺术家的作品。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Just because the avant-garde were exploring new forms of musical experience doesn't mean that the experiences themselves are only meaningful in terms of the specific techniques for bringing them about.
  Some products of the avant-garde keep their edge longer than others-Joyce, Picasso and Schonberg still have the capacity to shock after nearly a century.
  The most prestigious traditional Bohemian glass decoration, Tiefschnit, or deep, intaglio carving, was also adopted by the artists of the avant-garde.
  It could be 1961, or 1949, with the avant-garde wearing berets and reciting poetry.
  And from the outset, this idea will contradict manifestos of the avant-garde - attaching itself to a more unobtrusive psychological tradition.
  The earlier film culture manifested a proximity to the avant-garde, the rebel.
  But then, my project has always been to bring the smells of the barbeque to the world of the avant-garde.
  Modotti, a famous beauty of Italian birth, was the colleague and muse of photographer Edward Weston, who took her to Mexico to mix with the avant-garde.
  Early non-medical LSD use was limited to an intellectual avant-garde of writers, artists and musicians.
  To innovate, the avant-garde needed to push film out of the black box, the darkened theatre, into the white cube of the gallery space.
  Chen, 30, set aside his strict classical training, based on techniques developed as far back as the Tang dynasty, and moved into the realm of the avant-garde.
  The Soviet avant-garde experimented with photography, photomontage, film, architecture and design for everyday living.
  These were based on texts by Prevert, Schwitters and Artaud, all artists of the modernist avant-garde.
  Khardzhiev's seemingly unassailable authority stemmed, of course, from his personal knowledge of many of the key figures of the avant-garde.
  Museum attention to his photography-Stieglitz as artist rather than leader of the avant-garde - has been extensive and judicious.
  For over forty years, Weir has toured the world performing the entire pantheon of organ works, from the most expressive Mozart piece to the most challenging works of the avant-garde.
  Composers, editors, directors and writers, anyone who was respected in the avant-garde of the Hurrion arts seemed in attendance.
  Konig spent much of the 1970s in North America, where he established close ties with the leading artists of the avant-garde.
  It seemed an example of the avant-garde having learned the language of children, to use Forché's formulation, in order to briefly lure them away from the society of the spectacle.
  In the early Sixties she was still in the avant-garde, having abandoned St. Tropez to follow a guru to California, where she changed her name to Jane.
  She also investigates the avant-garde's motives in embracing black culture and proffers reasons and meanings for its interest.

adjectiveˌavɒ̃ˈɡɑːdˌævɑntˈɡɑrd

Favouring or introducing new and experimental ideas and methods.
前卫的；激进的；先锋派的
a controversial avant-garde composer
一位颇有争议的先锋派作曲家。
Example sentencesExamples
- He is a London-based independent curator of experimental, avant-garde, and artists' film and video.
- April will see another French classic, Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, in a more avant-garde production with eccentric sets and costumes supplied by Portland Opera.
- Finally, there is the dialogue of vision, an exchange between ‘authentic’ values and avant-garde ideas.
- After the second world war, the gap between audiences and avant-garde composers opened into an unbridgeable abyss.
- Christopher's ballets demonstrate a strong musicality and romanticism, which the choreographer says sets him apart from his more avant-garde contemporaries.
- The late avant-garde composer John Cage is in the news again.
- The exhibition was extraordinary for its size and status as a landmark in the context of introducing European avant-garde art to the United States.
- Unlike most avant-garde composers from the fifties, Boulez has always found the physical act of making music a pleasurable exercise for both the ears and the spirit.
- The rather scattered approach turns what could have been a compelling, avant-garde look into the ideas of a great thinker into a rather uneven experience.
- During the 1960s he experimented with various avant-garde ideas and techniques formerly forbidden in the USSR.
- This is coupled with an absence of widely available introductions and open doors for those who are unfamiliar with contemporary or avant-garde poetry.
- Artists here have been diligently working to improve their skills, as their counterparts in Beijing continue to put forward new concepts and avant-garde ideas.
- There is a lot of Chinese contemporary art and avant-garde art but I think China is much more daring.
- The theater has a reputation for producing experimental, avant-garde plays, many of them controversial.
- The film is about an avant-garde composer in the last century, and as you might expect, it's filled with his music.
- At that time at Olympic, I was doing avant-garde jazz, experimenting, trying all of these different things.
- I will inaugurate this study with a broad introduction to avant-garde film practice.
- And yet, this manages not to come across as math, and only barely sounds like an avant-garde experiment.
- These musicians play to an avant-garde, hardcore underground sound.
- In the war the surrealists had been exiled to Manhattan and brought with them an idea of avant-garde cinema.
Synonyms
innovative, advanced, innovatory, original, experimental, inventive, ahead of the times, new, forward-looking, futuristic, modern, ultra-modern, state-of-the-art, trendsetting, pioneering, progressive, groundbreaking, trailblazing, revolutionary
unfamiliar, unorthodox, unconventional, off-centre, eccentric, offbeat, bohemian
North American left-field
informal go-ahead, way-out
rare new-fashioned, neoteric

Derivatives

avant-gardism

noun

His avant-gardism attracts the attention of the villagers.
Example sentencesExamples
- The former challenges the choir with all kinds of technical hurdles, and the work, while utterly sincere, verges on avant-gardism of a type not common since the 1960s.
- What led the artist whose paintings are considered to have first inspired the use of the term ‘surrealism’ to cast doubt on so much of the avant-gardism of his time?
- ‘Our film,’ Dali boasted, ‘ruined in a single evening ten years of pseudo-intellectual post-war avant-gardism.’
- Each project engages with avant-gardism in manners that suggest its reinscription as a paradigm for art and social action in the 21st century.

avant-gardist

noun

Works of European avant-gardists and ‘world’ artists were juxtaposed for their ‘magical’ qualities.
Example sentencesExamples
- Even some avant-gardists began to mold their work around regular company structures, touring, repertory, and management that could talk to presenters and funding agencies.
- The only performance artist to make the pop charts, he joins the roster of aging musical avant-gardists who've begun to top the bill annually at the Rodeo.
- It has become a magnet for avant-gardists who want to hang out in a place that has become a byword for New York's alternative arts scene.
- Otherwise we are merely callow modernizers or cavalier avant-gardists, who in seeking to eradicate the past will discover that it returns with a vengeance to plague us.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting the vanguard of an army): from French, literally 'vanguard'. Current senses date from the early 20th century.

This French phrase was originally used in English in its original sense for the vanguard of an army. Use for those in the vanguard of what is new in the arts dates from the early 20th century.

Rhymes

Assad, aubade, backyard, ballade, bard, Bernard, bombard, canard, card, charade, chard, couvade, croustade, Cunard, facade, glissade, guard, hard, ill-starred, interlard, lard, Montagnard, nard, pard, petard, pomade, promenade, regard, rodomontade, roulade, saccade, Sade, salade, sard, shard, unmarred, unscarred, yard

Definition of avant-garde in US English:

avant-garde

nounˌaväntˈɡärdˌævɑntˈɡɑrd

usually the avant-garde

New and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.
（尤指艺术领域中的）前卫思想；先锋派
works by artists of the Russian avant-garde
俄国先锋派艺术家的作品。
Example sentencesExamples
- Even during the brief periods of thaw there was little space for innovation, critique, or the avant-garde.
- For all its pretensions towards reinvention, Glasgow remained deeply suspicious of the avant-garde.
- Dance music, of course, was never a single tradition, and that was its strength - the ability to draw on anything from African classical music to European avant-garde.
- A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, B.S. Johnson gained notoriety for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice.
- They were a remarkable couple, forward-thinking patrons of the arts who throughout their lives supported the avant-garde in art and architecture.
- Or one can question whether the cool, objectivizing aesthetic of the avant-garde ever really was.
- This is the American theatre and opera director - weaned on the avant-garde, marinated in the aesthetics of southeast Asia - who became famous working with Disney on The Lion King.
- The city has a reputation for being the one place where rock music and the avant-garde have merged with results that are spectacular rather than excruciating.
- With modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernists reject realism, mimesis, and linear forms of narrative.
- Experimentation, the avant-garde, suddenly becomes something barbarous and ineffective.
- It is set at the intersections of the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based electronic installation art, net art and software art.
- This genre intersects the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based installations, net art, software art, and netspeak.
- The re-emergence of the avant-garde, modernism's trope par excellence, marks the return of the repressed in contemporary art.
- He is maybe a bit like the great Serge Gainsbourg, who was also mixing pop music and the avant-garde.
- They are champions of the avant-garde, which explains how they come to be marooned for a fortnight in a chateau in the middle of a Belgian forest rehearsing a piece called Partitum Mutande.
- Ives may have sympathised with progressive ideas and there are occasional glimpses of the avant-garde in the Art Palace selection.
- The post-modernist movement challenged the Modernist notion of the avant-garde.
- This ethics of language, so central to Barthes's promotion of the avant-garde, may help to account for a puzzling feature of his criticism.
- There's so much great music in the world, from jazz, to Mozart, to rock, to French Impressionism, to folk music, the avant-garde, etc.
- I got into medieval music and the avant-garde, all the fringe stuff that people didn't like, the punk rock of classical music.

adjectiveˌaväntˈɡärdˌævɑntˈɡɑrd

Favoring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas.
前卫的；激进的；先锋派的
a controversial avant-garde composer
一位颇有争议的先锋派作曲家。
Example sentencesExamples
- There is a lot of Chinese contemporary art and avant-garde art but I think China is much more daring.
- In the war the surrealists had been exiled to Manhattan and brought with them an idea of avant-garde cinema.
- The rather scattered approach turns what could have been a compelling, avant-garde look into the ideas of a great thinker into a rather uneven experience.
- These musicians play to an avant-garde, hardcore underground sound.
- Artists here have been diligently working to improve their skills, as their counterparts in Beijing continue to put forward new concepts and avant-garde ideas.
- The film is about an avant-garde composer in the last century, and as you might expect, it's filled with his music.
- The exhibition was extraordinary for its size and status as a landmark in the context of introducing European avant-garde art to the United States.
- This is coupled with an absence of widely available introductions and open doors for those who are unfamiliar with contemporary or avant-garde poetry.
- During the 1960s he experimented with various avant-garde ideas and techniques formerly forbidden in the USSR.
- Unlike most avant-garde composers from the fifties, Boulez has always found the physical act of making music a pleasurable exercise for both the ears and the spirit.
- The late avant-garde composer John Cage is in the news again.
- The theater has a reputation for producing experimental, avant-garde plays, many of them controversial.
- Christopher's ballets demonstrate a strong musicality and romanticism, which the choreographer says sets him apart from his more avant-garde contemporaries.
- And yet, this manages not to come across as math, and only barely sounds like an avant-garde experiment.
- Finally, there is the dialogue of vision, an exchange between ‘authentic’ values and avant-garde ideas.
- After the second world war, the gap between audiences and avant-garde composers opened into an unbridgeable abyss.
- He is a London-based independent curator of experimental, avant-garde, and artists' film and video.
- April will see another French classic, Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, in a more avant-garde production with eccentric sets and costumes supplied by Portland Opera.
- I will inaugurate this study with a broad introduction to avant-garde film practice.
- At that time at Olympic, I was doing avant-garde jazz, experimenting, trying all of these different things.
Synonyms
innovative, advanced, innovatory, original, experimental, inventive, ahead of the times, new, forward-looking, futuristic, modern, ultra-modern, state-of-the-art, trendsetting, pioneering, progressive, groundbreaking, trailblazing, revolutionary

Origin

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

单词	avant-garde
释义	Definition of avant-garde in English: avant-garde noun ˌavɒ̃ˈɡɑːdˌævɑntˈɡɑrd usually the avant-garde 1New and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature. he has been called a promoter of the avant-garde Example sentencesExamples This ethics of language, so central to Barthes's promotion of the avant-garde, may help to account for a puzzling feature of his criticism. The city has a reputation for being the one place where rock music and the avant-garde have merged with results that are spectacular rather than excruciating. There's so much great music in the world, from jazz, to Mozart, to rock, to French Impressionism, to folk music, the avant-garde, etc. Ives may have sympathised with progressive ideas and there are occasional glimpses of the avant-garde in the Art Palace selection. This is the American theatre and opera director - weaned on the avant-garde, marinated in the aesthetics of southeast Asia - who became famous working with Disney on The Lion King. Or one can question whether the cool, objectivizing aesthetic of the avant-garde ever really was. Dance music, of course, was never a single tradition, and that was its strength - the ability to draw on anything from African classical music to European avant-garde. For all its pretensions towards reinvention, Glasgow remained deeply suspicious of the avant-garde. It is set at the intersections of the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based electronic installation art, net art and software art. Experimentation, the avant-garde, suddenly becomes something barbarous and ineffective. I got into medieval music and the avant-garde, all the fringe stuff that people didn't like, the punk rock of classical music. Even during the brief periods of thaw there was little space for innovation, critique, or the avant-garde. This genre intersects the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based installations, net art, software art, and netspeak. The post-modernist movement challenged the Modernist notion of the avant-garde. They were a remarkable couple, forward-thinking patrons of the arts who throughout their lives supported the avant-garde in art and architecture. With modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernists reject realism, mimesis, and linear forms of narrative. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, B.S. Johnson gained notoriety for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice. He is maybe a bit like the great Serge Gainsbourg, who was also mixing pop music and the avant-garde. The re-emergence of the avant-garde, modernism's trope par excellence, marks the return of the repressed in contemporary art. They are champions of the avant-garde, which explains how they come to be marooned for a fortnight in a chateau in the middle of a Belgian forest rehearsing a piece called Partitum Mutande. 1.1 A group of artists, musicians, or writers working with new and experimental ideas and methods. works by artists of the Russian avant-garde 俄国先锋派艺术家的作品。 Example sentencesExamples Just because the avant-garde were exploring new forms of musical experience doesn't mean that the experiences themselves are only meaningful in terms of the specific techniques for bringing them about. Some products of the avant-garde keep their edge longer than others-Joyce, Picasso and Schonberg still have the capacity to shock after nearly a century. The most prestigious traditional Bohemian glass decoration, Tiefschnit, or deep, intaglio carving, was also adopted by the artists of the avant-garde. It could be 1961, or 1949, with the avant-garde wearing berets and reciting poetry. And from the outset, this idea will contradict manifestos of the avant-garde - attaching itself to a more unobtrusive psychological tradition. The earlier film culture manifested a proximity to the avant-garde, the rebel. But then, my project has always been to bring the smells of the barbeque to the world of the avant-garde. Modotti, a famous beauty of Italian birth, was the colleague and muse of photographer Edward Weston, who took her to Mexico to mix with the avant-garde. Early non-medical LSD use was limited to an intellectual avant-garde of writers, artists and musicians. To innovate, the avant-garde needed to push film out of the black box, the darkened theatre, into the white cube of the gallery space. Chen, 30, set aside his strict classical training, based on techniques developed as far back as the Tang dynasty, and moved into the realm of the avant-garde. The Soviet avant-garde experimented with photography, photomontage, film, architecture and design for everyday living. These were based on texts by Prevert, Schwitters and Artaud, all artists of the modernist avant-garde. Khardzhiev's seemingly unassailable authority stemmed, of course, from his personal knowledge of many of the key figures of the avant-garde. Museum attention to his photography-Stieglitz as artist rather than leader of the avant-garde - has been extensive and judicious. For over forty years, Weir has toured the world performing the entire pantheon of organ works, from the most expressive Mozart piece to the most challenging works of the avant-garde. Composers, editors, directors and writers, anyone who was respected in the avant-garde of the Hurrion arts seemed in attendance. Konig spent much of the 1970s in North America, where he established close ties with the leading artists of the avant-garde. It seemed an example of the avant-garde having learned the language of children, to use Forché's formulation, in order to briefly lure them away from the society of the spectacle. In the early Sixties she was still in the avant-garde, having abandoned St. Tropez to follow a guru to California, where she changed her name to Jane. She also investigates the avant-garde's motives in embracing black culture and proffers reasons and meanings for its interest. adjectiveˌavɒ̃ˈɡɑːdˌævɑntˈɡɑrd Favouring or introducing new and experimental ideas and methods. 前卫的；激进的；先锋派的 a controversial avant-garde composer 一位颇有争议的先锋派作曲家。 Example sentencesExamples He is a London-based independent curator of experimental, avant-garde, and artists' film and video. April will see another French classic, Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, in a more avant-garde production with eccentric sets and costumes supplied by Portland Opera. Finally, there is the dialogue of vision, an exchange between ‘authentic’ values and avant-garde ideas. After the second world war, the gap between audiences and avant-garde composers opened into an unbridgeable abyss. Christopher's ballets demonstrate a strong musicality and romanticism, which the choreographer says sets him apart from his more avant-garde contemporaries. The late avant-garde composer John Cage is in the news again. The exhibition was extraordinary for its size and status as a landmark in the context of introducing European avant-garde art to the United States. Unlike most avant-garde composers from the fifties, Boulez has always found the physical act of making music a pleasurable exercise for both the ears and the spirit. The rather scattered approach turns what could have been a compelling, avant-garde look into the ideas of a great thinker into a rather uneven experience. During the 1960s he experimented with various avant-garde ideas and techniques formerly forbidden in the USSR. This is coupled with an absence of widely available introductions and open doors for those who are unfamiliar with contemporary or avant-garde poetry. Artists here have been diligently working to improve their skills, as their counterparts in Beijing continue to put forward new concepts and avant-garde ideas. There is a lot of Chinese contemporary art and avant-garde art but I think China is much more daring. The theater has a reputation for producing experimental, avant-garde plays, many of them controversial. The film is about an avant-garde composer in the last century, and as you might expect, it's filled with his music. At that time at Olympic, I was doing avant-garde jazz, experimenting, trying all of these different things. I will inaugurate this study with a broad introduction to avant-garde film practice. And yet, this manages not to come across as math, and only barely sounds like an avant-garde experiment. These musicians play to an avant-garde, hardcore underground sound. In the war the surrealists had been exiled to Manhattan and brought with them an idea of avant-garde cinema. Synonyms innovative, advanced, innovatory, original, experimental, inventive, ahead of the times, new, forward-looking, futuristic, modern, ultra-modern, state-of-the-art, trendsetting, pioneering, progressive, groundbreaking, trailblazing, revolutionary unfamiliar, unorthodox, unconventional, off-centre, eccentric, offbeat, bohemian North American left-field informal go-ahead, way-out rare new-fashioned, neoteric Derivatives avant-gardism noun His avant-gardism attracts the attention of the villagers. Example sentencesExamples The former challenges the choir with all kinds of technical hurdles, and the work, while utterly sincere, verges on avant-gardism of a type not common since the 1960s. What led the artist whose paintings are considered to have first inspired the use of the term ‘surrealism’ to cast doubt on so much of the avant-gardism of his time? ‘Our film,’ Dali boasted, ‘ruined in a single evening ten years of pseudo-intellectual post-war avant-gardism.’ Each project engages with avant-gardism in manners that suggest its reinscription as a paradigm for art and social action in the 21st century. avant-gardist noun Works of European avant-gardists and ‘world’ artists were juxtaposed for their ‘magical’ qualities. Example sentencesExamples Even some avant-gardists began to mold their work around regular company structures, touring, repertory, and management that could talk to presenters and funding agencies. The only performance artist to make the pop charts, he joins the roster of aging musical avant-gardists who've begun to top the bill annually at the Rodeo. It has become a magnet for avant-gardists who want to hang out in a place that has become a byword for New York's alternative arts scene. Otherwise we are merely callow modernizers or cavalier avant-gardists, who in seeking to eradicate the past will discover that it returns with a vengeance to plague us. Origin Late Middle English (denoting the vanguard of an army): from French, literally 'vanguard'. Current senses date from the early 20th century. This French phrase was originally used in English in its original sense for the vanguard of an army. Use for those in the vanguard of what is new in the arts dates from the early 20th century. Rhymes Assad, aubade, backyard, ballade, bard, Bernard, bombard, canard, card, charade, chard, couvade, croustade, Cunard, facade, glissade, guard, hard, ill-starred, interlard, lard, Montagnard, nard, pard, petard, pomade, promenade, regard, rodomontade, roulade, saccade, Sade, salade, sard, shard, unmarred, unscarred, yard Definition of avant-garde in US English: avant-garde nounˌaväntˈɡärdˌævɑntˈɡɑrd usually the avant-garde New and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them. （尤指艺术领域中的）前卫思想；先锋派 works by artists of the Russian avant-garde 俄国先锋派艺术家的作品。 Example sentencesExamples Even during the brief periods of thaw there was little space for innovation, critique, or the avant-garde. For all its pretensions towards reinvention, Glasgow remained deeply suspicious of the avant-garde. Dance music, of course, was never a single tradition, and that was its strength - the ability to draw on anything from African classical music to European avant-garde. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, B.S. Johnson gained notoriety for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice. They were a remarkable couple, forward-thinking patrons of the arts who throughout their lives supported the avant-garde in art and architecture. Or one can question whether the cool, objectivizing aesthetic of the avant-garde ever really was. This is the American theatre and opera director - weaned on the avant-garde, marinated in the aesthetics of southeast Asia - who became famous working with Disney on The Lion King. The city has a reputation for being the one place where rock music and the avant-garde have merged with results that are spectacular rather than excruciating. With modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernists reject realism, mimesis, and linear forms of narrative. Experimentation, the avant-garde, suddenly becomes something barbarous and ineffective. It is set at the intersections of the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based electronic installation art, net art and software art. This genre intersects the literary avant-garde, visual and concrete poetry, text-based installations, net art, software art, and netspeak. The re-emergence of the avant-garde, modernism's trope par excellence, marks the return of the repressed in contemporary art. He is maybe a bit like the great Serge Gainsbourg, who was also mixing pop music and the avant-garde. They are champions of the avant-garde, which explains how they come to be marooned for a fortnight in a chateau in the middle of a Belgian forest rehearsing a piece called Partitum Mutande. Ives may have sympathised with progressive ideas and there are occasional glimpses of the avant-garde in the Art Palace selection. The post-modernist movement challenged the Modernist notion of the avant-garde. This ethics of language, so central to Barthes's promotion of the avant-garde, may help to account for a puzzling feature of his criticism. There's so much great music in the world, from jazz, to Mozart, to rock, to French Impressionism, to folk music, the avant-garde, etc. I got into medieval music and the avant-garde, all the fringe stuff that people didn't like, the punk rock of classical music. adjectiveˌaväntˈɡärdˌævɑntˈɡɑrd Favoring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas. 前卫的；激进的；先锋派的 a controversial avant-garde composer 一位颇有争议的先锋派作曲家。 Example sentencesExamples There is a lot of Chinese contemporary art and avant-garde art but I think China is much more daring. In the war the surrealists had been exiled to Manhattan and brought with them an idea of avant-garde cinema. The rather scattered approach turns what could have been a compelling, avant-garde look into the ideas of a great thinker into a rather uneven experience. These musicians play to an avant-garde, hardcore underground sound. Artists here have been diligently working to improve their skills, as their counterparts in Beijing continue to put forward new concepts and avant-garde ideas. The film is about an avant-garde composer in the last century, and as you might expect, it's filled with his music. The exhibition was extraordinary for its size and status as a landmark in the context of introducing European avant-garde art to the United States. This is coupled with an absence of widely available introductions and open doors for those who are unfamiliar with contemporary or avant-garde poetry. During the 1960s he experimented with various avant-garde ideas and techniques formerly forbidden in the USSR. Unlike most avant-garde composers from the fifties, Boulez has always found the physical act of making music a pleasurable exercise for both the ears and the spirit. The late avant-garde composer John Cage is in the news again. The theater has a reputation for producing experimental, avant-garde plays, many of them controversial. Christopher's ballets demonstrate a strong musicality and romanticism, which the choreographer says sets him apart from his more avant-garde contemporaries. And yet, this manages not to come across as math, and only barely sounds like an avant-garde experiment. Finally, there is the dialogue of vision, an exchange between ‘authentic’ values and avant-garde ideas. After the second world war, the gap between audiences and avant-garde composers opened into an unbridgeable abyss. He is a London-based independent curator of experimental, avant-garde, and artists' film and video. April will see another French classic, Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, in a more avant-garde production with eccentric sets and costumes supplied by Portland Opera. I will inaugurate this study with a broad introduction to avant-garde film practice. At that time at Olympic, I was doing avant-garde jazz, experimenting, trying all of these different things. Synonyms innovative, advanced, innovatory, original, experimental, inventive, ahead of the times, new, forward-looking, futuristic, modern, ultra-modern, state-of-the-art, trendsetting, pioneering, progressive, groundbreaking, trailblazing, revolutionary Origin Late Middle English (denoting the vanguard of an army): from French, literally ‘vanguard’. Current senses date from the early 20th century.
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