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The avant-garde (from French advance guard or vanguard literally fore-guard) are people or works that are experimental or innovative particularly with respect to art culture and politics.The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo primarily in the cultural realm. The avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism as distinct from postmodernism.
