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• n  any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
• s  radically new or original
  an avant-garde theater piece

• A common criticism of avant-garde art used to be that small children banging on pots and pans or flinging paint at a canvas could have produced exactly the same effect.
• N ASKED TO MUSE ON THE avant-garde of the generation before his own, the man who became perhaps the most influential avant-garde dramatist of the 20th century savored the .
• Shenggy was at the venue of 'Break the rule', an avant-garde exhibition in London.

• vanguard
• van
• new wave
• daring

News & Articles

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• TimesTalks Luminato Festival Video: Willem Dafoe and Robert Wilson
  The film and stage actor Willem Dafoe and the avant-garde director Robert Wilson talk with the culture writer and author John Rockwell.
  June 15, 2013 - New York Times
• German police break up international art ring
  German police said Thursday they have broken up a multi-million-euro (-dollar) international forgery ring which specialized in producing bogus works attributed to Russian avant-garde artists including ...
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• German police bust multi-million dollar international art forgery ring
  German police said Thursday they have broken up a multi-million-euro (-dollar) international forgery ring which specialized in producing bogus works attributed to Russian avant-garde artists including Vasily Kandinsky.
  June 13, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Paul McCartney in Reuters UK
  I said it would be great to put this on because it would show we were working with really avant-garde stuff,McCartney told Radio 4's Front Row culture show in an interview to be broadcast on Thursday.
• Barack Obama in Economic Times
  With the 200C EV, we were able to maximize the effectiveness of the ENVI powertrain with the stunning, wind-cheating vehicle shape, while pushing toward the future with the avant-garde interior and advanced in-vehicle connectivity. Designed for the... Ralph Gilles http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Gilles&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHLWsMUSF64nmYSHR0Wbobo61r8Xg SYS-CON Media http://www.google.com/url?q=http://in.sys-con.com/node/805719&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEQoOEft3G-ah-SCi3cQobKb9spBQ Jan 11, 2009 6947 10159 avant-garde Visiting a veritable who's who of global technology giants" in Bangalore, the would-be Obama official said he "was struck not only by the technological inroads being made in newly designed, avant-garde factories and laboratories, but also by...