Does Avant-Garde Need to Be Italicized?
Some of the More Common Words Listed as Examples of Assimilated and Not Italicized by the Mhra Style Guide Include: Avant-Garde, Debris, Denouement...
Some of the more common words listed as examples of assimilated and not italicized by the MHRA Style Guide include: avant-garde, debris, denouement, dilettante, ennui, genre, leitmotif, milieu, par excellence, salon, status quo and vice versa.
Do you italicize avant-garde?
The Idea of “Avant-garde” in Art and Politics
In his present article, contrary to the usual editorial style of the AHR, the word “avant-garde” has not been italicized in order to avoid a too specifically French connotation.
How do you write avant-garde?
The avant-garde (/ˌævɒ̃ˈɡɑːrd/; In French: [avɑ̃ɡaʁd] 'advance guard' or 'vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.