vanguardism
noun
the beliefs and activities of persons who consider themselves to be leaders in a particular field or school of thought.
vanguardist
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a word derived from
vanguardism.
Example Sentences
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Though Ross mocks the idea of the heroic dissenter he associates with "vanguardist" critics of popular culture, he presents Andy Warhol as a culture hero, exemplary because he identified himself with popular culture.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
A similarly vanguardist outlook characterized almost all the places that Reece and Jennings write about.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016
He has ample history with the members of this promising quartet, each a vanguardist in his own right: the tenor saxophonist Chris Speed, the bassist Chris Lightcap and the drummer David King.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2016
Through his manager, Mr. Hancock met with Bill Laswell and Michael Beinhorn, whose vanguardist rock band Material was a fixture of New York’s downtown scene.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2016
He’s a singer and guitarist and a student of Brazilian popular songs who’s spent decades learning from and working with vanguardist composers: serialists, musique-concrète-ists, minimalists, overtone obsessives.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2011
