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    avant-garde
    [ noun ]
    1. any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

    2. <noun.group>
    [ adj ]
    1. radically new or original

    2. <adj.all>
      an avant-garde theater piece


    avant-garde \a*vant`-garde"\ ([.a]*v[aum]nt"-g[aum]rd`), n. [F.
    avant before + E. guard, F. avant-garde. See {Avaunt}.]
    The most advanced group of people in any field of endeavor,
    especially in literary and artistic work, usually
    characterized by new ideas and experimental techniques.
    [PJC]


    avant-garde \a*vant`-garde"\ ([.a]*v[aum]nt"-g[aum]rd`), a.
    1. Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the avant-garde.
    [PJC]

    2. Characterized by the use of experimental techniques;
    modern; daring; radical.
    [PJC]

    1. "One of our tests is to keep the audience where they are, because there is a tendency for an audience to join in," said Jeremy Alliger, head of an avant-garde performance group called The Dance Umbrella, which is presenting the Boston shows.
    2. JoAnne Akalaitis, earth mother of the avant-garde theater troupe Mabou Mines, was named his artistic associate.
    3. Such formalist experimentation eventually fell into disfavor, and in 1934 the Soviet art avant-garde was condemned at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers for running counter to revolutionary and proletarian goals.
    4. The reputations of the likes of Hilton and Eastlake were no more over-inflated than those of today's chic avant-garde.
    5. He became an important figure in the American "underground" comics movement, and, since 1980, he has co-edited Raw, the international avant-garde comics magazine.
    6. It doesn't have to be avant-garde, it has to meet spiritual needs."
    7. The gallery also has an extensive collection of avant-garde artists' books.
    8. And if the natural development of his work led him away from abstraction or an extreme formal distortion, it should never be a criticism of an artist to accuse him of not being avant-garde. But our age would seem to require it.
    9. In the avant-garde interior fine porcelain and oil paintings made way for ancient artefacts and African masks. African colours like cream, brown and black began to predominate in interiors and strong primitive lines became the rage.
    10. He and co-writer Jon Bradshaw may have meant well, but the archness and self-conscious pretension with which they translate avant-garde to the screen sets one's teeth on edge.
    11. "Even the person who does the most avant-garde nonbasket basket has respect for the traditional basket.
    12. In recent years, several paintings have been shown in exhibits of avant-garde art of the 1920s and 1930s permitted in the freer atmosphere under President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
    13. Stan Brakhage, one of the most influential filmmakers of America's avant-garde cinema, is this year's recipient of the prestigious Edward MacDowell Medal.
    14. Like the other "avant-garde" pieces the Met has been willing to try these past years, it was fresh long before I was born.
    15. In "A Sinking Island," for example, he shows how stirrings of the avant-garde could be felt in the followers of Oscar Wilde and in so solidly Victorian a figure as H.G. Wells.
    16. For a few short years the Bank was one of the main collectors in the field, amassing 3,000 works by such avant-garde names as Anselm Kiefer, George Baselitz, and Gilbert and George.
    17. This imagery is said to derive from constructivism, the early-20th-century Russian avant-garde movement.
    18. Beuys, who died in 1986, became a celebrated figure in the avant-garde art movements in the 1960s.
    19. An Item From the `Know Your Ad Models' File TO GIVE its Amaretto di Saronno liqueur a hipper image, Paddington Corp. is running ads featuring such avant-garde celebrities as writer Tama Janowitz and cabaret singer Buster Poindexter.
    20. Putting himself in the role of the director, he updates the play by making topical references to Harvard and the avant-garde works the ART often presents.
    21. So abruptly avant-garde was the modernist approach to literature that its methods seem new to us in 1988, more than 70 years later.
    22. It's hard to learn anything about these people in "What Did He See?" _ Richard Foreman's latest exercise in avant-garde incomprehensibility that opened Tuesday at off-Broadway's New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.
    23. Highly commended: Terence Davies's dazzling elegy to a British childhood The Long Day Closes (Curzon). Commended: Ghosts Of The Civil Dead (Electric), menacing avant-garde tale of hi-tech prison life in Australia.
    24. Lyubimov, who founded the Taganka Theater and made it famous with its avant-garde productions and controversial themes, battled with censors throughout much of his career in Moscow.
    25. Curiously enough, this once most rarefied and remote of musical forms has even begun to tap a yuppie audience in a way that orchestras have failed to do: The avant-garde Kronos Quartet (three men, one woman) has an enthusiastic young following.
    26. An avant-garde theater company was ordered to quit performing its play called "The Cardinal Detoxes" or face eviction by the landlord: the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.
    27. Opening night began with an avant-garde concert by Roy Campbell, William Parker Duo and Jazz Passengers at Equitable Center and by ragtime pianist Terry Waldo at Weill Recital Hall.
    28. Still, Philip Morris wins much praise because it champions the avant-garde, notably in the visual and performing arts.
    29. Lyubimov's avant-garde productions in his 20-year career at the Taganka theater often ran into trouble with Communist Party and government officials.
    30. Only the underlying assumption offends, that what is now academic should be defended and promoted as being of the first current importance, the persistent heresy that only what is avant-garde, soi-disant revolutionary, can ever be truly significant.
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