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Avant-garde movement angry about hosting platform (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dadaism

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'avant-garde movement' is the definition.
'Dadaism' can be an answer for 'movement' (Dadaism is an example). I am not certain of the 'avant-garde' bit.

'angry about hosting platform' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'about' could be 'a' (abbreviation in Chambers) and 'a' is found within the answer.
'platform' could be 'dais' (dais is a kind of platform) and 'dais' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for dadaism that I've seen before include "Anti-art movement" , "artistic movement" , "Absurd movement" , "Early twentieth century art movement" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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