One neighborhood of New York County is contiguous with the mainland. Marble Hill at one time was part of Manhattan Island, but the Harlem River Ship Canal, dug in 1895 to improve navigation on the Harlem River, separated it from the remainder of Manhattan as an island between the Bronx and the remainder of Manhattan.
For other uses, see Avant-garde (disambiguation). The Love of Zero, a 1927 film by Robert Florey. The avant-garde (from French, advance guard or vanguard, literally fore-guard) are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture, and society.
art rejected the past and transgressed conventional art practice (though not always) for political ends. not the same as modern art; avant-garde art is always modern but modern art (art that responds to modernity) is not always avant-garde. Impressionism. dominant movement in FRENCH painting, 1870s to 1880s.