Avant-garde (pronounced /?v?? g??d/) in French means “front guard”, “advance guard”, or “vanguard”.[1] The term is commonly used in French, English, and German to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the [...]
SURREALISM, noun, masc., Pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express, either verbally or in writing, the true function of thought. Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations. From Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, 1924 ANDRÉ BRETON Link to this post!