avant-garde

is the opponent of an existing system, and as such, an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying because for him, any established form of expression is also a form of oppression.

An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels... for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system. Eugene Ionesco

is the folks who design the emperor's new clothes.

The folks who design the emperor's new clothes.

is the one thing constant in a changing world.

is frequently mistaking the word ‘new’ for a value descriptor when it is merely a temporal marker.

Avant-gardists frequently mistake the word ‘new’ for a value descriptor when it is merely a temporal marker.

Avant-garde: French for off-Broadway garbage.

is always running scared, like the Israelites fleeing not through a parted Red Sea but the Mainstream about to close over them.

The avant garde is always running scared, like the Israelites fleeing not through a parted Red Sea but the Mainstream about to close over them.

is an enemy inside a city it is bent on destroying.

An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.

avant garde, n.Definitions

avant garde