The artist, the scientist and the industrialist  

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"L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel" (1825) is an essay by the Saint Simonian Olinde Rodrigues. The essay was the first to refer to avant-garde in an artistic context, along with the promotion of radical social reform. It is thus the first recorded use of "avant-garde" in its now-customary sense. Rodrigues calls on artists to "serve as [the people's] avant-garde," insisting that "the power of the arts is indeed the most immediate and fastest way" to social, political, and economic reform. Over time, avant-garde became associated with movements focusing primarily on expanding the frontiers of aesthetic experience, rather than with wider social reform.


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