avant-garde
Example Sentences
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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.
Mansfield met her second husband, the editor John Middleton Murry, when she submitted a short story to his avant-garde magazine, Rhythm.
“Very avant-garde. Like a large parrot. More of a statement piece now.”
From Literature
Glass' groundbreaking moment came in 1976 when he premiered "Einstein on the Beach" -- a work that tore apart basic expectations of opera and marked a coming of age for the avant-garde.
From Barron's
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
