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Is the Avant-Garde Still Avant-Garde?

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By Stefan Collini, Radical Art, David Cottington, Mychal Denzel Smith Verified
| The Nation Verified
The idea of an “avant-garde” tends to inspire complex emotions, oscillating between excitement at its glamour and scorn at its pretensions. The term carries an association of being daring, experimental, unconventional; the main body of practice or opinion that it is in “advance” of is usually figured as a monolith of dull orthodoxy.
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