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avant-garde

avant-garde (n.) Look up avant-garde at Dictionary.com (also avant garde, avantgarde); French, literally "advance guard" (see avant + guard (n.)). Used in English 15c.-18c. in a literal, military sense; borrowed again 1910 as an artistic term for "pioneers or innovators of a particular period." Also used around the same time in a political sense in communist and anarchist publications. As an adjective, by 1925.

- The artwork. The prior year the equity partners at Scully & Pershing had
gone to war over a designer’s proposal to spend $2 million on some baffling
avant-garde paintings to be hung in the firm’s main foyer. The designer was
ultimately fired, the paintings forgotten, and the money split into
bonuses. (Grisham - Grey Mountain)

- The Berlin that Schrödinger left bore little resemblance to the city
he loved. Less than a year earlier the German capital had been full of
life—artistic, scientific, political. Its avant-garde theater and operettas
attracted international attention. It welcomed people of all faiths and
viewpoints. (Halpern - Einstein)



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