and it goes on to say...

obviously the definition of avant garde has changed over the years.

"Each successive modernist movement of the 19th century-- Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism-- challenged artistic conventions with greater intensity. This relentless challenge gave rise to the avant-garde. Use of this term has expanded over the years; t now serves as a synonym for any particularly new or cutting-edge cultural manifestation. [Avant-garde] derived from the 19th-century French military usage... It then migrated to the art world in the 1880s, where it referred to artists who were ahead of their time and who transgressed the limits of established art forms... The avant-garde were modernists n that they rejected the classical, academic, or traditional and they adopted a critical stance toward their respective media. Yet they departed from modernism n their art's extreme transgressiveness or subversiveness." (Gardner's Art Through the Ages: Twelfth Edition, pg 886)


anyone in my class probably knows that though because they are also required to take art history.