Avant-garde is that art that is innovative as to be ahead of the mainstream art of its time and rejected as unacceptable by the official system and institutions. Most work that is currently called avant-garde by the official museum and gallery system is not - simply because once officialdom adopts it and blesses it, it becomes part of the mainstream. The heroic period of the modern avant-garde was 1880-1960.
Cumming, Robert (2001). Art: A Field Guide (pg. 379). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
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