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- a very avant-garde artist whose works wouldn't even be considered art by many traditionalists
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- to the theater world's avant-garde, the melodrama seemed like a very old-fashioned play whose time had come and gone
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“Avant-garde.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avant-garde. Accessed 20 Aug. 2022.
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