Word: vanguardism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French gallerygoers 100 years ago never felt like this about the art of the French Revolution. Jacques-Louis David looked old-fashioned by then, whereas Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Liubov Popova and all their colleagues in the ism soup of the Russian artistic vanguard still look fresh and daring...
BOEING'S FAMOUS JUMBO JET, THE 747, HAS BEEN THE KING OF THE SKIES since it went into commercial service in 1970. More than 900 of its four models still form the vanguard of long-range airline fleets around the world. The 747 has enjoyed an outstanding safety record: only 11 have crashed in 22 years...
Allen Ginsberg. Timothy Leary. The Grateful Dead. These men were the links in the daisy chain of 1960s counterculture, the original hippies. Like Marx stewing away in the British Library, they were the vanguard of a movement of radical thought...
...access to the vanguard of the civilrights movement," he says...
Facing great adversity, Mexican-American lesbians have been the vanguard of feminism and progressivism, author and lecturer Carla Trujillo told a group of about 25 students in Emerson Hall last night...