page_title: List of avant-garde artists
section_title: Avant Garde: Jazz, composers, performance artists
hierarchical_section_title: List of avant-garde artists / Avant Garde: Jazz, composers, performance artists
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan of frontispiece from "Miniature essays: Igor Stravinsky." Photographer: Robert Regassi. Scans of whole book available at https://archive.org/details/miniatureessaysi00lond
context_page_description: Avant-garde is French for "vanguard". 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.
  Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Postmodernism posits that the age of the constant pushing of boundaries is no longer with us and that avant-garde has little to no applicability in the age of Postmodern art.
context_section_description: Laurie Anderson (American composer)
  George Antheil (American composer)
  Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca (Catalan performance artist)
  Albert Ayler (Free jazz)
  John Balance (Music Composer, poet)
  The Beatles (English rock lyricists, composers, and singers)
  Luciano Berio (Italian composer)
  Arthur Brown (English rock singer and performer)
  Pierre Boulez (French composer)
  David Bowie (English rock singer and performer)
  Glenn Branca (American guitarist and composer)
  Günter Brus (Austrian performance artist)
  John Zorn (American musician and composer)
  Harold Budd (American composer)
  John Cage (American composer)
  Les Claypool (American musician, singer, bassist, film maker, novelist, composer)
  Ornette Coleman (American jazz musician)
  John Coltrane (American jazz musician)
  Conlon Nancarrow (American composer)
  Tony Conrad (American violinist and composer)
  Ivor Cutler (Scottish avant-musician and poet)
  Miles Davis (American jazz musician)
  Claude Debussy (French composer)
  Eric Dolphy (American jazz musician)
  Marco Donnarumma (Italian performance artist)
  Duke Ellington (American jazz musician, band leader and composer)
  Don Ellis (American jazz musician, band leader and composer)
  Brian Eno (English musician and composer)
  Aphex Twin (British musician and composer)
  Morton Feldman (American composer)
  Brigitte Fontaine (French Singer, novelist, playwright and actress)
  Aaron Funk (Canadian electronic musician)
  Diamanda Galás (American Musician, composer and performance artist)
  Philip Glass (American composer)
  Dave Holland (British jazz musician)
  Daryl Hayott (American Jazz Musician/Composer)
  Charles Ives (American composer)
  Roland Kirk (American jazz musician)
  Bill Laswell (Avant-Garde musician)
  György Ligeti (Hungarian/Austrian/Romanian composer)
  Witold Lutosławski (Polish composer)
  Béla Bartók (Hungarian composer)
  Lydia Lunch (American singer, poet, writer and actress)
  Angus MacLise (American percussionist)
  Charles Mingus (American jazz musician)
  Thelonious Monk (American jazz musician)
  Max Neuhaus (composer)
  Hermann Nitsch (Austrian performance artist)
  Mike Oldfield (English composer)
  Pauline Oliveros (American composer and accordionist)
  Yoko Ono (Japanese artist and musician)
  Harry Partch (American composer and instrument designer)
  Mike Patton (American musician, singer and composer)
  Krzysztof Penderecki (Polish composer)
  Ástor Piazzolla (Argentine Nuevo Tango pioneer)
  Jarosław Pijarowski (Polish contemporary musician, poet, photographer, creator of fine arts and theatre-music spectacles)
  Sun Ra (Free jazz innovator)
  Steve Reich (American composer)
  Stelarc (Cyprus-born performance artist)
  Terry Riley (American composer)
  Arthur Russell (American musician, singer and composer)
  Pharoah Sanders (American jazz musician)
  Erik Satie (French composer and pianist)
  Pierre Schaeffer (French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician)
  Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian/American composer)
  Archie Shepp (American jazz musician)
  Karlheinz Stockhausen (German composer)
  Igor Stravinsky (Russian composer)
  David Tudor (American composer)
  Arto Tunçboyacıyan (Armenian vocalist, multiinstrumentalist)
  Edgard Varèse (French composer, later naturalized American citizen)
  David Vorhaus (American electronic composer)
  Igor Wakhevitch (French composer)
  Anton Webern (Second Viennese School)
  Robert Wyatt (English singer and songwriter)
  Iannis Xenakis (Greek composer and architect)
  Kathleen Yearwood (Canadian composer)
  La Monte Young (American composer)
  Frank Zappa (American composer, guitarist and satirist)
  Autopsia (ex-Yugoslavian/Czech post-industrial band)
  Amon Düül II (German krautrock band)
  Arcturus (Norwegian avant-garde band)
  Maya Beiser (experimental cellist)
  Captain Beefheart (experimental rock singer)
  Boredoms (Japanese noise band)
  Björk (Icelandic musician)
  Buckethead (American composer and guitarist)
  Butthole Surfers (American experimental rock band)
  John Cale (Welsh avant-garde musician)
  Can (Avant-garde rock band)
  Coil (British electronic post-industrial band)
  Cluster (German krautrock group)
  Einstürzende Neubauten (German industrial band)
  Brian 
caption: Igor Stravinsky, 1921
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