Home › Words › A › avantpopavantpopavantpop means an American artistic movement which derived from postmodernism in the 1990s, characterized by the reuse of existing mass media materials (cinema, pop music, television, etc.) in an avant-garde manner.EtymologyBlend of avant-garde + pop.nounAn American artistic movement which derived from postmodernism in the 1990s, characterized by the reuse of existing mass media materials (cinema, pop music, television, etc.) in an avant-garde manner.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.postmodernism 56% match — Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement. vs avantpop →anamodernism 56% match — A philosophical movement of 21st century occupied with the questions of contemporaneity and after post-modernity vs avantpop →popcrete 56% match — A genre of concrete poems assembled from images rather than words. vs avantpop →transavantgarde 55% match — An Italian form of neo-expressionism vs avantpop →antivideo 55% match — An audiovisual work presented in video format that deliberately defies the conventions of genre and format. vs avantpop →neofuturism 55% match — An artistic movement in the late 20th and early 21st century that was more optimistic in tone than postmodernism. vs avantpop →agitpop 55% match — Pop music of an agitational character. vs avantpop →antipop 55% match — Opposing mainstream pop music. vs avantpop →