avant-garde

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But when I got to college and fell madly in love for the first time, I was primed for the Kate Bush version of “Wuthering Heights,” an avant-garde musical number, all shrieks and pleading.

From Los Angeles Times

Its closing track, a harmonically suspended instrumental titled “The Brazilian,” flirted with the avant-garde by repeating the same anti-melody, anchored on a jungle of percussive clangs and hyperkinetic Simmons drum rolls.

From Los Angeles Times

Lam was embraced and encouraged by the Parisian avant-garde, especially Picasso, with whom he exhibited, and the Surrealists, including André Breton, with whom he collaborated.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mansfield met her second husband, the editor John Middleton Murry, when she submitted a short story to his avant-garde magazine, Rhythm.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Very avant-garde. Like a large parrot. More of a statement piece now.”

From Literature