02Definition
a·vant-garde /a.vɑ̃.ɡaʁd/ (French, from avant and garde, a military term), n. f.
1. a group of artists united by a will for renewal, anticipating the golden age the future promises to those who dare to go beyond present entertainment. 2. organic intellectuals developing new or experimental concepts. 3. in Marxist theory, the most conscientious and most politicized fraction of the proletariat. 4. an artists' collective advocating other ways of seeing.