avant-garde
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The Nobel Committee lauded Carson for her distinctive style that mixes classical scholarship, lyric poetry and avant-garde translation, often reimagining ancient Greek mythology and philosophy through a personal, contemporary feminist lens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“How do we make fun of it in an avant-garde, punk, radical way? How do we poke holes at it?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
"Throughout an extraordinary lifetime devoted entirely to artistic creation, Kusama pursued an internationally acclaimed career as a pioneering avant-garde artist whose creative practice encompassed visual art, performance, fiction, and poetry," it said.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
After studying art in Japan, Kusama moved to the United States in the late 1950s, and -- encouraged and helped by Georgia O'Keeffe -- quickly made a splash in New York's avant-garde scene.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Nor do I know whether accepting the lesson has placed me in the rear or in the avant-garde.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
The troupe’s co-founders, Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, are serious artists whose shrewd approach and mischievous creative drive combine elements of European and American avant-gardes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Almost a third of the works here are by women, which, for a show of historical avant-gardes, counts as a lot.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2020
It took many years, and a model of art history that stopped seeing the past as a mere succession of avant-gardes, before Klossowski finally won attention in Europe as a visual artist.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2015
In his mid-20s, Tavener symbolised what must have seemed like a visionary coming-together of the pop and classical musical avant-gardes.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2013
Mott thinks that punk has been misrepresented since, both by rock historians who have over-intellectualised its meaning and context, and by curators who over-emphasise its artistic links to previous avant-gardes.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2010
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