avant-garde movement

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avant-garde
adjective
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/ˌæv.ɑ̃ːˈɡɑːd/us
/ˌæv.ɑ̃ːˈɡɑːrd/
Avant-garde ideas, styles, and methods are very original or modern in comparison to the period in which ...
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movement
noun
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/ˈmuːv.mənt/us
/ˈmuːv.mənt/
a change ...
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Theavant-gardemovementsaw its peak in the 1960s and electroacoustic pieces were most actively produced in this period.
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Thisavant-gardemovementis a futuristic rethinking of the visual and functionality of the rapidly growing cities affected by a wide-scale urbanization.
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Today the term experimental cinema prevails, because its possible to make experimental films without the presence of anyavant-gardemovementin the cultural field.
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The film is about a late-1970savant-gardemovement.
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At this time, theavant-gardemovementwas just being taken up by filmmakers, who were making new discoveries daily about the artistic potential of filmmaking.
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He was aligned with theavant-gardemovement.
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Kuljeri felt definitive limitations of theavant-gardemovementin the beginning of the '80s with its aesthetics not allowing him further development of his musical ideas.
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Among others, these dancers and choreographers shaped dance history by creating postmodern dance, the firstavant-gardemovementin dance theater since the modern dance of the 1930s and 1940s.
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But, although popular song provided the soundtrack for these avant-garde movements, its proximity to the progressive fringe of artistic activity did not guarantee its own elevated prestige.
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Avant-garde movements rapidly evolved and overlapped in a march towards nonfigurative, total abstraction.
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Caproni, however, didn't lose the artistic sensibility he had acquired thanks to the influences of mitteleuropean secessions and avant-garde movements.
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His views on historical avant-garde movements influenced the region's perception and artistic production.
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The historical avant-garde movements also contributed to the development of experimental literature in the early and middle 20th century.
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Like other avant-garde movements at the time, it held anti-war, anti-bourgeois and anti-nationalist views and rejected traditional culture and art.
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Second, avant-garde movements in the visual arts flourished.
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As a scholar, his main contribution to the world of letters has been a new perspective on the early-twentieth-century avant-garde movements.
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