Improbable though it may sound, American Christianity and Gianni Versace shared a taste for the avant-garde.
The avant-garde (literal translation, advance guard) valiantly leads the rest of the culture into the uncharted future.
And that style helped propel jazz through its most important developments - from swing to bebop to the avant-garde.
If the avant-garde was still heard in the concert hall, the programme would be sugared with Mozart and Beethoven.
The Barrons' music caught the ear of the avant-garde scene: In the early 1950s, they worked on a year-long project with composer John Cage.
Increased scope impels the imperative of education as not only an absolute right for all, but also a relative necessity to engage the avant-garde.
Although different designers have produced various styles of work for the company, LaCie's overall aesthetic maintains a sense of haute couture-ism bordering on the avant-garde.
Along the way, the Vogels thrilled in getting to know the artists, talking about their work, going on studio visits and developing their eye for the avant-garde.
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Today the avant-garde monopoly is a thing of the blessedly distant past, but Poulenc, though his music continues to be played around the world, is still widely seen as a lightweight.
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In part, Guan's popularity lies in a pragmatism not usually associated with the avant-garde: "After one year in Australia, I realized that many of my friends were sticking to Chinese ways, " he says.
Over the past decade Mr. Maret, 37, has turned up with virtually every musician in every style, from bossa nova to the avant-garde, but is clearly his own man in terms of his playing.
Although Ensor had helped found the avant-garde Belgian coalition Les XX in 1883, his "Entry" was deemed too radical for exhibition five years later by his cohorts, whose aesthetic tended more toward French Impressionism.
In the 1990s, Ai came to international attention when he helped establish the avant-garde East Village in Beijing where a group of artists took up residence in impoverished migrant workers housing on the city's outskirts.
The term has been inappropriately hi-jacked by the politically correct who mock it, the avant-garde who belittle it, the naive who discount it, and the public at large seems to be growing tired of hearing about it.
As a member of the avant-garde in mathematics in France in the 1930s he made his name as a founder of the Bourbaki group, which owed its moniker to a prank theorem named after a general in Napoleon III's army.
Since Oslo, since Zo Artzeinu, we developed a concept of what the right should do put a different agenda on the Israeli field and create a new layer of leadership that, instead of coming from the leftist avant-garde, comes from the right avant-garde.
The experience of working with Meyerhold had decisively shaped Eisenstein's own artistic ideas, convincing him that theatre and cinema should take their place among the modern, and indeed the avant-garde arts, whose stagecraft and visual design needed to break decisively with 19th-century realism.
As the exhibition encourages viewers to explore through photographs of Alfred Stieglitz's elegant installations, the center of this movement was Stieglitz's gallery, 291, where the great impresario and photographer regularly presented the latest aesthetic challenges by the avant-garde on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Russian avant-garde painting of the early 20th century is scarcely less wondrous in its way.
This notion of the practical avant-garde hints at the decade's most intriguing legacy: a blend of fantasy and pragmatism that celebrated both the handcrafted and the industrial without quite kowtowing to either extreme.
The only avant-garde composer in a department still notorious for its conservatism (the famous troika of Denisov, Schnittke and Gubaidulina were personae non gratae during the Soviet period), Mr Tarnopolsky has been professor of composition since 1992.
The most avant-garde among them will branch out wearing Isabel Marant or the newest New York subversive, recently anointed Balenciaga designer Alexander Wang, for an evening, before deciding that they feel way too edgy and returning to their trademark LBD or LB pantsuit for the next event.
The book is now an international sensation, hailed as the hip new face of the Chinese avant-garde.
It looks set to start a stampede as the more avant-garde galleries migrate across town from Mayfair and St James's.
The music is avant-garde but the staging wasn't and it was lovely.
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Just one movement, that of the Russian avant-garde, after it was cut off from Europe by war and revolution, achieved something like collective genius.
In the past seven years, Pinault has shown some of the most avant-garde art to be exhibited in a city known for its Renaissance beauty.
Having begun his career in the French avant-garde, he was increasingly viewed as an arch-conservative by ambitious younger critics, who dismissed him as reactionary and worse bourgeois.
Richter's background, typical of many in the European avant-garde, was affluent.
Maison Martin Margiela was founded by Martin Margiela, a Belgian designer who was often labeled as the seventh member of the original avant-garde group of designers called Antwerp Six.
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