No Vision of Conquest

There was a line here in the article that really caught my eye, and it was cunning's line of, "and these artist have no vision of conquest", when speaking about the new avant garde. This line struck me in a special way, mostly because the idea of avant garde depends upon it. This just might be me, but whenever a new art movement comes along thats on the breaking edge of whatever medium its apart of, or avant garde, I always feel like its originated by artist who didn't intend to start some new wave or movement and were just trying to make something just a little more fresh that still fitted their style,  artist with no visions of conquest.