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Avant garde
Marcel Duchamp's Urinal
Avant garde (sometimes avant-garde; literally, vanguard) is a French phrase, one of a number of French phrases used by English speakers. It is used to refer to persons or actions that are novel or experimental, particularly with respect to the arts.
See for example: dadaism, cubism, futurism, lettrisme, paradoxism, neoism, mail art, constructivism, etc.
The avant garde was originally concerned with art for the sake of social progress: seeing the artist as the vanguard of a social reform movement. Over time however the term has also come to be associated with movements concerned with "art for art's sake", concerned directly with aesthetic experience rather than social reform, the direct opposite of its original intentions.
Surrealism claims to have transcended the "avant-garde."
See also: Experimental music
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The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (October Books) by Hal Foster
Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century by Steven Heller
Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde by Joscelyn Godwin
A Transatlantic Avant-Garde : American Artists in Paris, 1918-1939 by Sophie Levy
Random Order : Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde by Branden W. Joseph
Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body by Sally Banes
New Directions in Music by David Cope
Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes by Lyle Rexer
Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982 by Lowery Stokes Sims
The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934 by Deborah Wye
Boccioni's Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the Avant-garde in Milan and Paris by Umberto Boccioni
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