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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    an avant-garde film movement which was born in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. cinéma vérité realism in documentary filmmaking. "Vérité" means "truth". cliché originally referred to a printer's block used to reproduce type, compare the original meaning of stereotype. A phrase that has become trite through overuse; a stereotype. clique

  3. Avant-garde - Wikipedia

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    Avant-garde cinema, The Love of Zero (1928), a short film directed by the artist Robert Florey [1] In the arts and literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning ' advance guard ' or ' vanguard ') identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic ...

  4. Absolute (perfumery) - Wikipedia

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    Rose oil, [2] jasmine absolute, tuberose absolute, tobacco absolute, [3] orris root oil, ambrette seeds oil, angelica root oil, and orange flower oil are valuable and expensive fragrance and flavor ingredients. [4] Residual solvents may remain in the absolutes. Therefore, some absolutes are considered undesirable for aromatherapy. [citation needed]

  5. Avant-garde (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Avant-garde refers to a style in experimental work in art, music, culture, or politics. Avant-garde may also refer to: Avant-Garde, a graphic design magazine; ITC Avant Garde, a typeface; Avant-Garde Computing, a defunct networking software company; Avant-Garde, youth section of the French Milice paramilitary organization

  6. List of avant-garde artists - Wikipedia

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    Pablo Picasso 1962. Avant-garde (French pronunciation: [avɑ̃ ɡaʁd]) is French for "vanguard". [1] The term is commonly used in French, English, and German to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art and culture.

  7. List of avant-garde films of the 1930s - Wikipedia

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    Jan Christopher Horak, ed. Lovers of Cinema: The First American Avant-Garde, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI 1995 Lovers of Cinema: The First American Avant-Garde, 1919–1945. University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-299-14684-9; Paul Rotha and Roger Manvell, "Movie Parade: A Pictorial Survey of the Cinema" London: The Studio ...

  8. Avant-Garde and Kitsch - Wikipedia

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    "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" is the title of a 1939 essay by Clement Greenberg, first published in the Partisan Review, in which he claimed that avant-garde and modernist art was a means to resist the "dumbing down" of culture caused by consumerism.

  9. Sillage (perfume) - Wikipedia

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    Sillage in a perfume is not to be confused with its 'projection' (how a fragrance is perceived by others around the wearer) and is enhanced by motion, ambient temperature as well as the inherent qualities of the skin. According to an article by Mookerjee, a fragrance is perceived by the diffusion of individual fragrance molecules. [2]