avant-garde

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The 16-minute dance, the longest of the show, was set to an imaginative mix of taped selections ranging from George Gershwin to Kurt Schwitters, the avant-garde artist who also composed sound poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal

Perhaps the most avant-garde filmmaker ever to make it big in Hollywood, David Lynch brought surrealism to the big screen in films including Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet.

From BBC

Mingling Cubism, Dada, abstraction, Constructivism and Surrealism, he occupied his own avant-garde stronghold.

From The Wall Street Journal

Until “Anónimo,” the Argentine avant-garde had never sounded so intoxicatingly sensuous.

From Los Angeles Times

Then there’s the music itself, which was beyond avant-garde.

From Los Angeles Times