Avant-garde facts for kids
For other uses, see Avant-garde (disambiguation).
Avant-garde (pronounced) in French means "front guard", "advance guard", or "vanguard". The term is commonly used in French, English, and German for people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly in the areas of art, culture, and politics.
Avant-garde represents a going against what is accepted as the norm, especially in culture.
Avant-garde art movements
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Images for kids
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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
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Max Horkheimer (front left), Theodor Adorno (front right), and Jürgen Habermas in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg, West Germany
See also
In Spanish: Vanguardismo para niños
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