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As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless because you don't know the repercussions to anything.
Gia Coppola

Meaning of "avant-garde" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AVANT-GARDE

From French: vanguard.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AVANT-GARDE

avant-garde  [ˌævɒŋˈɡɑːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AVANT-GARDE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Avant-Garde can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES AVANT-GARDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Avant-garde

The avant-garde are people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics. The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Many artists have aligned themselves with the avant-garde movement and still continue to do so, tracing a history from Dada through the Situationists to postmodern artists such as the Language poets around 1981. The avant-garde also promotes radical social reforms. It was this meaning that was evoked by the Saint Simonian Olinde Rodrigues in his essay "L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel", which contains the first recorded use of "avant-garde" in its now customary sense: there, Rodrigues calls on artists to "serve as avant-garde", insisting that "the power of the arts is indeed the most immediate and fastest way" to social, political and economic reform.

Definition of avant-garde in the English dictionary

The first definition of avant-garde in the dictionary is those artists, writers, musicians, etc, whose techniques and ideas are markedly experimental or in advance of those generally accepted. Other definition of avant-garde is of such artists, etc, their ideas, or techniques. Avant-Garde is also radical; daring.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AVANT-GARDE


Asgard
ˈæsɡɑːd
belgard
ˈbɛlˌɡɑːd
bodyguard
ˈbɒdɪˌɡɑːd
Bogarde
ˈbəʊɡɑːd
coastguard
ˈkəʊstˌɡɑːd
disregard
ˌdɪsrɪˈɡɑːd
enguard
ɪnˈɡɑːd
fougade
fuːˈɡɑːd
guard
ɡɑːd
Kierkegaard
ˈkɪəkəˌɡɑːd
lifeguard
ˈlaɪfˌɡɑːd
Midgard
ˈmɪdɡɑːd
misregard
ˌmɪsrɪˈɡɑːd
mudguard
ˈmʌdˌɡɑːd
off-guard
ˌɒfˈɡɑːd
rearguard
ˈrɪəˌɡɑːd
regard
rɪˈɡɑːd
safeguard
ˈseɪfˌɡɑːd
unguard
ʌnˈɡɑːd
vanguard
ˈvænˌɡɑːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AVANT-GARDE

avail
avail oneself of
availability
available
availableness
aval
avalanche
avalement
Avalon
Avalon Peninsula
avant-gardism
avant-gardist
avanti
avantist
avanturine
Avar
avarice
avaricious
avariciously
avariciousness

WORDS THAT END LIKE AVANT-GARDE

barde
bombarde
Cape Verde
Concorde
en garde
Forde
Golden Horde
gourde
horde
Lagarde
Mesa Verde
misericorde
paloverde
poularde
Verde
Vinho Verde

Synonyms and antonyms of avant-garde in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AVANT-GARDE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «avant-garde» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of avant-garde

Translation of «avant-garde» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AVANT-GARDE

Find out the translation of avant-garde to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of avant-garde from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «avant-garde» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

前卫的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de vanguardia
570 millions of speakers

English

avant-garde
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हरावल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الطليعية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

авангарда
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de vanguarda
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সেনাবাহিনীর অগ্রবর্তী দল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

avant-garde
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Avant-garde
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

avantgardistisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前衛的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아방가르드의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Avant-garde
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

avant-garde
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புதுமை விரும்பிகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अवांत-गार्डे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yenilikçi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

d´avanguardia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

awangardy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

авангарду
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

avant - garde
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

avant - garde
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

avant -garde
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

avantgarde
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avant - garde
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of avant-garde

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AVANT-GARDE»

The term «avant-garde» is very widely used and occupies the 22.495 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AVANT-GARDE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about avant-garde

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10 QUOTES WITH «AVANT-GARDE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word avant-garde.
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Ferran Adria
Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?
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Paul Thomas Anderson
My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.
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Adrien Brody
What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.
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Bat for Lashes
I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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John Cale
The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
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J. C. Chandor
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
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Gia Coppola
As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless because you don't know the repercussions to anything.
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Domenico Dolce
It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.
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Michael Eisner
There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.
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Henry Flynt
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AVANT-GARDE»

Discover the use of avant-garde in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to avant-garde and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Brave New Avant Garde: Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics
Brave New Avant Garde is a collection of essays that ask the questions: what is an adequate model of contemporary avant garde practice and what are its theoretical premises?
Marc James Léger, 2012
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Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes, and Passions
Through in-depth case-studies, the book introduces students not only to the history of the avant-garde but also to varied analytical approaches to the films themselves - ranging from abstraction (Richter, Ruttmann) to surreal visions ...
Michael O'Pray, 2013
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The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
A collection of essays examining the nature of modern art includes discussions of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Smithson
Rosalind E. Krauss, 1986
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The Theory of the Avant-garde
Convinced that all aspects of modern culture have been affected by avant-garde art, Poggioli explores the relationship between the avant-garde and civilization.
Renato Poggioli, 1981
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Photography's antiquarian avant-garde: the new wave in old ...
The photographers in this volume are from all over the world and use a wide array of processes.
Lyle Rexer, 2002
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Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies
Through in-depth readings of these works, Scott MacDonald takes viewers on a critical circumnavigation of the conventions of movie going as seen by filmmakers who have rebelled against the conventions.
Scott MacDonald, 1993
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Letters from the Avant-Garde: Modern Graphic Design
Writing paper, postcards, and business cards offer typographic self-portraits of the most influential progenitors of modern design.
Ellen Lupton, 1996
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Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde
An examination of the artistic development of Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on his relationship with John Cage and his role in the making of the American neo-avant-garde.
Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg, 2003
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Harry Smith: The Avant-garde in the American Vernacular
Constituting a first attempt to locate Smith and his diverse endeavors within the history of avant-garde art production in twentieth-century America, the essays in this volume reach across Smith's artistic oeuvre.
Andrew Perchuk, Rani Singh, 2010
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Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, ...
Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism.
Matei Calinescu, 1987

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AVANT-GARDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term avant-garde is used in the context of the following news items.
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Squid Now 2: Splatfest - A Splatoon avant-garde art film sequel
Squid Now 2: Splatfest - A Splatoon avant-garde art film sequel. 15 hours ago - 7:00 PM on 07.05.2015 // Jed Whitaker · @jed05. Splatfests change a kid ... «Destructoid, Jul 15»
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Arca and Jesse Kanda review – entertaining sensory musical barrage
... that asks so many questions – about sexuality, beauty, music and performance – and for all his avant-garde originality, Arca is an entertainer. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Christian Dior Fall 2015 Couture
... past and future, high culture and pop culture, the avant-garde and the street, all flowing together to bring you to only one place—the present. «Vogue.com, Jul 15»
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Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
Nell Zink's Plan for World Domination: the latest Zink piece is, this time, on Vice: “People look to the tall white guys to be our avant-garde ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Alex Winston Nails Her Hardly "Careless" Re-Appearing Act
Avant-garde pop singer Alex Winston isn't talking about magic tricks, but her return to music. Following the release of her 2012 debut album ... «Village Voice, Jul 15»
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Review: No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last
Its music drew from urban and rural sources, from deep blues and Latin rhythms, from jazz and the avant-garde. And its performance, then and ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Andrew Levitas Wants You To Play In His Metal Playground
In the late 1970s, New York critic Harold Rosenberg saw art at a tipping point. The avant-garde had already exacerbated the limits of ... «Miami New Times, Jul 15»
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Bolivian gourmet eatery creates quinoa communion wafers for pope
LA PAZ: A Bolivian avant-garde restaurant hopes this week to serve a well-known non-paying customer and receive a holy seal of approval for ... «Channel News Asia, Jul 15»
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Avant-garde classic The Truck takes minimalism to extremes
Duras' legacy as a filmmaker was cemented with avant-garde efforts like The Truck, which has been proclaimed by the New Yorker critic ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
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Site visit: Geoscience BC's avant-garde treetop sampling
Meanwhile, Colin Dunn, pioneer scientist of the avant-garde technique and retired geochemist with the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), ... «The Northern Miner, Jun 15»

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