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title: "Eyes front – the avant-garde"
date: 2016-01-27
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/eyes-front-the-avant-garde-context-en/"
description: "These days, the term “avant-garde” is applied to many things - SCHIRN MAGAZINE explains where it comes from and how it has changed down through the decades."
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language: "en-US"
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# Eyes front – the avant-garde