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  2. The arts - Wikipedia

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    [73] [74] In the social sciences, cultural economists show how playing video games is conducive to involvement in more traditional art forms. [75] In 2011, the National Endowment of the Arts included video games in its definition of a "work of art", [76] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum presented an exhibit titled The Art of the Video ...

  3. Wikipedia : Contents/Culture and the arts

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    Performing arts – those forms of art that use the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium. Acting – is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode. Dance – art form of movement of ...

  4. Humanities, arts, and social sciences - Wikipedia

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    Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) (or Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, AHSS), also known as social studies, is a broad term that groups together the ...

  5. Outline of the humanities - Wikipedia

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    Music – art form the medium of which is sound and silence. Opera – art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and musical score. [6] Stagecraft – technical aspects of theatrical, film, and video production. It includes, but is not limited to, constructing and rigging scenery, hanging ...

  6. Humanities - Wikipedia

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    Humanities majors are sought after in many areas of business, specifically for their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. [55] Research has shown that humanities majors are especially adept at "soft skills" such as "written and oral communication, creative problem-solving, teamwork, decision-making, self-management, and critical analysis".

  7. Visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Training in the visual arts has generally been through variations of the apprentice and workshop systems. In Europe, the Renaissance movement to increase the prestige of the artist led to the academy system for training artists, and today most of the people who are pursuing a career in the arts train in art schools at tertiary levels.

  8. Art history - Wikipedia

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    Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...

  9. History of art - Wikipedia

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    The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visual form. Visual art can be classified in diverse ways, such as separating fine arts from applied arts ...