Avant la lettre
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| + | [[Image:Detail from Superbia, 1577, Bruegel.jpg |thumb|left|200px|Detail of ''[[Superbia]]'' ([[1577]]) by [[Bruegel]], [[proto-science fiction]]]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Reverse Side Of a Painting.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Reverse Side of a Painting]]'' (1670) by [[Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts]], an example of ''[[metapainting]]'', postmodernism [[avant-la-lettre]].]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Bracelli.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|Surrealism [[avant la lettre]] from the ''[[Bizzarie di varie figure]]'' ([[1624]]) by [[Giovanni Battista Braccelli]]]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Rain Steam and Speed the Great Western Railway.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway]]'' ([[1844]]) by [[William Turner]], [[Impressionism]] ''[[avant la lettre]]'']] | ||
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| - | '''Avant la lettre''' is a [[French language|French]] [[phrase]] which means before its time. Literally it means ''before the letter'', before the term was coined. | + | '''Avant la lettre''' (Latin '''ante litteram''') is a [[French phrase]] used to describe something or someone seen as a precursor or forerunner of something (such as an artistic or political movement) before that something was recognized and named, e.g. "a post-modernist avant la lettre", "a feminist avant la lettre"; the expression literally means ''before the letter'', i.e. "before it had a name". It is also called ahead of its time. |
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| - | == Related keywords == | + | |
| - | [[avant-garde]] - [[avant la lettre]] - [[futurism]] - [[greatness]] - [[innovation]] - [[precursor]] - [[early]] - [[original]] - [[power]] - [[proto]] - [[seminal|seminal (work)]] | + | == See also == |
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| + | *[[Avant-garde]] | ||
| + | *[[Originality]] | ||
| + | *[[Proto]] | ||
| + | *[[Statu nascendi]] | ||
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Avant la lettre (Latin ante litteram) is a French phrase used to describe something or someone seen as a precursor or forerunner of something (such as an artistic or political movement) before that something was recognized and named, e.g. "a post-modernist avant la lettre", "a feminist avant la lettre"; the expression literally means before the letter, i.e. "before it had a name". It is also called ahead of its time.
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