Assertion: avant garde | /r/CapableOf | see art
Facets:
value: as opposites
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Greenberg believed that the avant-garde arose in order to defend aesthetic standards from the decline of taste perpetuated by the mass-production of consumer society, and saw kitsch and art as opposites.
text: The avant garde was originally concerned with art for the sake of social progress: seeing the artist as the vanguard of a social reform movement.