Meanings of european avant in English

His courage and physicality seem to link him to the European avant-garde.

One of the contrails of influence was a strong connection between Afro-futurism and the European avant garde.

It was considered a turning point because it introduced Americans, accustomed to classical art, to the European avant-garde.

Danish pianist and composer Simon Toldam has one foot in the European avant-garde and the other in old-school free jazz.

It is 1943 and Choucair has not yet left Beirut for Paris and seen the European avant garde at first hand.

If this sounds like European avant-garde theatre at its most off-puttingly modish, the effect is in fact kookily funny and coolly self-aware.

The death last week of Pierre Boulez at the age of 90 marks the passing of the last great figure from the postwar European avant-garde.

The exhibit recreates, on a smaller scale, the experience of the 1913 show that shocked New Yorkers and introduced them to the European avant garde.