avant-garde has definitions from the fields of theater,fine art
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[ adjective ] (theater) radically new or original

Synonyms

daring

Examples

"an avant-garde theater piece"

Used in print

(Musical America, LXXXI:5...)

Nevertheless , Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties : the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World - the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated - the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America - the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff , Stravinsky , Koussevitzky , Cocteau , Picasso - the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art - the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms .

Related terms

original

2
[ noun ] (fine art) any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

Related terms

artistic_movement

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