1) The concept of avant-garde refers exclusively to marginalized artists, writers, composers and thinkers whose work is not only opposed to mainstream commercial values, but often has an abrasive social or political edge.
2) A group active in the invention and application of new techniques in a given field, especially in the arts.
3) Avant-garde, the French military and political term for the vanguard of an army or political movement, extended since the late 19th century to that body of artists and writers who are dedicated to the idea of art as experiment and revolt against tradition. Ezra Pound's view, that ‘Artists are the antennae of the race’, is a distinctly modern one, implying a duty to stay ahead of one's time through constant innovation in forms and subjects.
4) The innovating artists or writers who promote the use of new or experimental concepts or techniques.
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