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Literally "advance-guard", i.e. the scouts that march in advance of a military formation and reconnoitre the enemy or secure new ground.
In literature and the arts, groups "of artists and authors who deliberately undertake, in Ezra Pound's phrase, to "make it new". By violating the accepted conventions and proprieties, not only of art but of social discourse, they set out to create ever-new artistic forms and styles and to introduce hitherto neglected, and sometimes forbidden, subject matter" (Abrams 168).
Particularly associated with the period of Modernism, the umbrella term "avant-garde" covers very different artistic movements whose common denominator is the opposition to the artistic mainstream, the taste of the general audience or bourgeois culture. Often, avant-garde movements published manifestos (a term borrowed from political writing), i.e. declarations of their aims and principles. Examples include the the Futurist Manifesto (1909) by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the Dada Manifesto (1918) by Tristan Tzara.
Avant-garde Movements (Small Selection)
Sources
- Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 7th Edition. Orlando: Harcourt Brace, 1999.