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- noun member of the
avant-garde
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avant-garde + -ist
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Her development proceeds from traditional prose forms, through avantgardist poetry and painting to Roman-Catholic mysticism.
Mirjam Tuominen David McDuff 2010
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Her development proceeds from traditional prose forms, through avantgardist poetry and painting to Roman-Catholic mysticism.
Archive 2010-05-01 David McDuff 2010
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Like Both, the arthritic Mickey Sabbath is a once scandalous avantgardist rusticating in New England but still running on "oppositional exuberance."
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During the same period avantgardist artists, in particular Dadaists and Constructivists, radically expanded the possibilities of photography: Works by Man Ray,
Art Knowledge News 2009
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