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- noun the novel, experimental approach of the
avant-garde
Etymologies
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Examples
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"There's a tongue-in-cheek quality to the design, in that Mame appreciates avant-gardism from a connoiseurial standpoint while also recognizing its ridiculousness, in the form of the kinetic seating," says Mr. Adler.
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The most truly and indigenously American thing about abstract expressionism was perhaps the critical rhetoric that celebrated it — the little-magazine polemics, chiefly by Rosenberg and Greenberg, that made matters of taste into moral and political crucibles, reduced aesthetic judgments to formalist tests of a triumphalist teleology, and presented the belated American embrace of European avant-gardism as a world-historical event.
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We are told, for instance, that they are ideal sites for serial killers to lay undetected, whose barns and silos breed not a predilection for artistic avant-gardism but rather criminally deviant behaviors and the darkest of souls.
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But Bohemia has always been a place where the avant-gardism and egalité of the arts has made out with the social disinhibition and liberté of the aristocracy, often by way of providing social and stylistic cover for overt homosexuality.
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But Bohemia has always been a place where the avant-gardism and egalité of the arts has made out with the social disinhibition and liberté of the aristocracy, often by way of providing social and stylistic cover for overt homosexuality.
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How did Mr. Kline get from downtown avant-gardism to the straightforwardly melodic, practically medieval harmonies of Revelator?
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How did Mr. Kline get from downtown avant-gardism to the straightforwardly melodic, practically medieval harmonies of Revelator?
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How did Mr. Kline get from downtown avant-gardism to the straightforwardly melodic, practically medieval harmonies of Revelator?
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[By avant-gardism] I'm referring to pop art, minimalism and conceptual art.
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Writing poetry, he began find a space between the provincialism of much of Slovene literature at the time and the avant-gardism of poet Srečko Kosovel.
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