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Originally Posted by demonrail666

It's a word that gets thrown around a lot here (as much by me as anyone, I admit) but one that rarely receives any attention as to what it actually IS. I'm not so bothered about what sites like Wikipedia say as much as what you think.

Here's hoping that this turns into something interesting.

avant garde literally is the advance force of an army (vanguard)and this harks back to the time when artists saw themselves as a forward moving cultural force that would change society. they took that from bolshevism if im not mistaken. then again one of the first "avant-gardes" were the protofascist futurists. (!!)