avant-garde vs traditional

avant-garde

adj
  • Innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so. 

noun
  • Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts. 

traditional

noun
  • A person with traditional beliefs. 

adj
  • Communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only. 

  • Relating to traditional Chinese. 

  • Of, relating to, or derived from tradition. 

  • Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned. 

  • In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time. 

How often have the words avant-garde and traditional occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )