Avante-garde

For other uses, see Avant-garde (disambiguation). The Love of Zero, a 1927 film by Robert Florey Avant-garde (French pronunciation: ​[avɑ̃ɡaʁd]); from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard"[1]) refers to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Many artists have aligned themselves with the avant-garde movement and still continue to do so, tracing a history from Dada through the Situationists to po