avant-
Britishprefix
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“I want to reinforce the idea that the ICA is a center for provocation, that it’s the home of the British avant- garde,” Muir, 46, says in an interview at his office.
From BusinessWeek • Nov. 25, 2011
Mercedes’ new design may backfire, as the “very avant- garde” makeover risks alienating traditional buyers, said Jeremy Anwyl, head of automotive website Edmunds.com.
From BusinessWeek • Jan. 11, 2011
Such a fin-de-siecle moment: Schwarzenegger, the son of an Austrian Nazi, starring in a $70 million special-effects action blockbuster that owes everything to a brilliant avant- garde 1921 play by Luigi Pirandello, the Italian Fascist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Herbert Bayer's virtuoso, typography-driven ads for the Container Corp. of America from the '50s and '60s look like avant- garde work from the late '80s.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where The Beades had plundered music hall, centuries-old Anglo-Celtic folk and the sounds of the 1960s electronic avant- garde, Steve Reich derived his inspirations from African drumming and Balinese gamelan music.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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