avant-garde art Author:Hess and Ashbery, Eds. the Avant-Garde... the moste daring of the experimentalists, innovators of the original and startingly unconventional. the creators of impressionism, Pointillism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Surrealism and Media Mix.... — Here in a beautifully illustrated symposium of distinguished artists and critics, the Avant-Garde is assessed. On... more »e hundred fifty years of vital creative activity are reviewed in terms of artists whose work has often been difficult to define, but has never been without immense and lasting impact.« less