Example sentences for: avant-garde

How can you use “avant-garde” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As befits a city which every February hosts a major International Film Festival, Berlin is endowed with a huge number of cinemas, showing a variety of films ranging from the usual Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde works of art.

  • Today, Kusama is a cult figure in the Japanese avant-garde, recognized not only for her art but for her novels as well--gothic fables of sexual violence set in New York, with titles like The Hustler's Grotto of Christopher Street (which ends with a suicidal leap from the Empire State Building) and The Burning of St. Mark's Church .

  • Artists of the avant-garde intellectual movement known as Dada called for state prayers to be replaced by simultaneous poetry and regularization of sexual intercourse via a Central Dada Sex Office.

  • The vast space inside is used for temporary exhibitions on global cultures and non-European avant-garde art, and there’s also a conference room, restaurant, café, and theater.

  • Britain, of course, is a literary culture, and basically I feel that the "Sensation" artists are grafting literary themes onto avant-garde forms devised in America.


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