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Definition: Avant Garde |
Avant GardeNoun1. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Avant Garde (French.) The van or advanced guard of an army. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Avant garde (sometimes avant-garde; literally, vanguard) is a French language phrase, one of a number of French phrases used by English speakers. It is used to refer to persons or actions that are novel or experimental, particularly with respect to the arts but also in communications and culture. See for example: dadaism, cubism, futurism, lettrisme, paradoxism, neoism, etc.
Surrealism claims to have transcended the "avant-garde."
The avant garde was originally concerned with art for the sake of social progress: seeing the artist as the vangard of a social reform movement. Over time however the term has also come to be associated with movements concerned with "art for art's sake", concerned directly with aesthetic experience rather than social reform, the direct opposite of its original intentions.
See also: Experimental music
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Synonyms: Avant GardeSynonyms: van (n), vanguard (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Avant Garde |
| Etymologies containing "avant garde": Vanguard. (references) |
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Screenplays | This is Chevalier, Montage, Detente, Avant Garde, and Deja Vu. (Top Secret!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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| Language | Translations for "avant garde"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | avangardë (advance guard, vanguard), pararojë (advance, advance guard, pilot, Van, vanguard), kryesues. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | авангард (advance guard, spearhead, vanguard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | avantgarda (vanguard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | avant-garde (avant-garde). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | avantgardistisch, avantgarde (avant-garde). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρωτοποριακόσ (pioneer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חיל "חלוץ (vanguard), או 'אר". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | avangard. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | avanguardia (forefront, spearhead, Van, vanguard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avantay ardegay авангард (advance guard, advance-guard, avante-garde, forefront, vanguard). (various references) avangardni. (various references) vanguardia (advance guard, forefront, spearhead, vanguard). (various references) avantgarde-, avantgarde (avant-garde). (various references) yenilikçiler, yenilikçi (go ahead, hipster, improver, innovator, modernist, reformer, reformist), yenilik getirenler, öncü olanlar, öncü (advance, advance guard, advanced, apostle, bannerbearer, high priest, initiator, pilot, pioneer, pole star, precursor, spearhead, trailblazer, vanguard). (various references) авангард (advance guard, vanguard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-g-n-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: advantage. | |
-2 letters: vanadate. | |
-3 letters: dragnet, gardant, gradate, granted, ravaged, tanager, taverna, vagrant, vantage, veranda, verdant. | |
-4 letters: adnate, advent, advert, agenda, agnate, ardent, argent, avatar, danger, gander, garden, garnet, grated, graved, graven, ranged, ranted, ravage, tanged, tavern. | |
-5 letters: adage, agate, agave, agent, anear, anger, antae, anted, antra, antre, arena, avant, avert, dater, daven, denar, derat, drave. | |
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