【正确答案】正确答案：Avant-garde was once the French military and political term. Since the late 19th century, it extended to artists and writers who were dedicated to the idea of art as experiment and revolt against tradition. Ezra Pound"s view "Artists are the antennae of the race" , is a distinctly modern one, implying a duty to stay ahead of one"s time through innovation in forms and subjects.