avant-garde

Adjective modifier

• Russian: His work is in constant dialog with the Russian avant-garde; his early paintings are visibly influenced by the supremacist canvases of Kasimir Malevich.
• artistic: The SI is a very special kind of movement, different in nature from preceding artistic avant-gardes.
• revolutionary: Stalinist esthetics roll back the discoveries of the technophilic revolutionary avant-garde of the early post-revolution years.
• European: Such a federation should bring together the states of a European avant-garde.
• historical: Bürger distinguishes quite sharply between modernism, and what he terms the historical avant-garde or, elsewhere, the revolutionary avant-garde.
• contemporary: We must assume that Hunter has not read much of the contemporary avant-garde!

Modifies a noun

• composer: Andrew said: My work was inspired by the avant-garde composer John Cage.
• cinema: I would strongly recommend this title to anyone interested in the avant-garde, experimental cinema or the cult film canon.
• poetry: Avant-garde poetry To improve my mind, I bought a book of avant-garde poetry.
• artist: The avant-garde Artist 's orientation toward the Modern concept of " progress " is clear.
• movement: He was considered a leading figure in the post-war avant-garde movement.
• film: A leading expert on avant-garde film did not know what a website was.

Modifying Another Word

• very: The photos are very avant-garde not the traditional portrait.
• too: It was too far out there, too edgy, too avant-garde, too everything.
• even: William's work is very unusual, even avant-garde.

Noun used with modifier

• century: Their dazzling canvases provided a dramatic opening chapter to the revolutionary progress of 20th century avant-garde art.
• film: His book Experimental Cinema ( 1970 ) was one of the first books to survey the international film avant-garde.
• term: Ot uses the term avant-garde to indicate its focus on artists and art movements that have led the filed in breaking with successive traditions.
• twentieth-century: I have also done a little work on the twentieth-century avant-garde ( e.g.
• post: He regards all these as points of departure, none as a destination we live in a post avant-garde world.