garde

a riposte, only _en garde, _ always _en garde_ very carefully, steadily, ready for his antagonist at every turn and in every circumstance.

I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

[Footnote 1291: "Et habuit _l'avant garde La Hire_ de quo ipsa Johanna fuit multum irata, quia ipsa multum affectabat habere onus de _l'avant garde_ La Hire qui conducebat _l'avant garde_ percussit super

The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

The closest such historical work comes to the artistic avant garde is in Dziga Vertov's rare animation Soviet Toys - a predictably anti-bourgeois screed done with a very fine line - and Lotte Reiniger's Adventures of Prince Achmed, probably the first feature-length animated film, made with shadow puppets (intriguingly anticipating Kara Walker's work, which is also represented here).

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010

The closest such historical work comes to the artistic avant garde is in Dziga Vertov's rare animation Soviet Toys - a predictably anti-bourgeois screed done with a very fine line - and Lotte Reiniger's Adventures of Prince Achmed, probably the first feature-length animated film, made with shadow puppets (intriguingly anticipating Kara Walker's work, which is also represented here).

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010

But the modern movement set out to be provocative and revolutionary from the start (Manet?), and popularising the avant-garde is bound to blunt the blade.

Ballardian » 'Perverse Technology': Dan Mitchell & Simon Ford interview J.G. Ballard 2008

I might take exception, however, to the comments of Ange Mlinko, who seems ready to recruit me as an example in support of her weird claim that “the avant-garde is more sexist than the mainstream ….”

By the Numbers : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Now this bastion of avant-garde is imperiled by a new management team.

July 2007 2007

Now this bastion of avant-garde is imperiled by a new management team.

Five blogs that would be on my blogroll if I only had a blog 2007

Which brings up another question: If an avant-garde is written about in a major newspaper like this one, doesn't that prove that it has moved to the culture's prosperous Midtown?

Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives 2004

As I’ve written elsewhere, the proper rubric for the avant garde is not some tired old rule that you (Christian) and others seem to think of as the recipe for “good poems”, but rather a specific, but expanded, notion of freedom.

Writing and Failure (Part 8) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007