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  2. Wikipedia : Contents/Outlines/Culture and the arts

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    Culture – set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that define a group of people, such as the people of a particular region. Culture includes the elements that characterize a particular peoples' way of life. The arts – vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. The arts encompasses visual ...

  3. Arts in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Traditional arts in the Philippines include folk architecture, maritime transport, weaving, carving, folk performing arts, folk (oral) literature, folk graphic and plastic arts, ornaments, textile or fiber art, pottery, and other artistic expressions of traditional culture. [1]

  4. Wikipedia : Contents/Culture and the arts

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    The arts are a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. It is a broader term than "art," which as a description of a field usually means only the visual arts. The arts encompasses visual arts, literary arts and the performing arts – music, theatre, dance, spoken word and film, among others.

  5. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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    Benjamin presents the thematic bases for a theory of art by quoting the essay "The Conquest of Ubiquity" (1928), by Paul Valéry, to establish how works of art created and developed in past eras are different from contemporary works of art; that the understanding and treatment of art and of artistic technique must progressively develop in order to understand a work of art in the context of the ...

  6. Art - Wikipedia

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    In The Invention of Art: A Cultural History, Larry Shiner examines the construction of the modern system of the arts, i.e. fine art. He finds evidence that the older system of the arts before our modern system (fine art) held art to be any skilled human activity; for example, Ancient Greek society did not possess the term art, but techne.

  7. Art as Experience - Wikipedia

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    Art and (aesthetic) mythology, according to Dewey, is an attempt to find light in a great darkness. Art appeals directly to sense and the sensuous imagination, and many aesthetic and religious experiences occur as the result of energy and material used to expand and intensify the experience of life.

  8. Culture of Uttar Pradesh - Wikipedia

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    The Culture of Uttar Pradesh is an Indian culture which has its roots in Hindi, Bhojpuri and Urdu literature, music, fine arts, drama and cinema. [1] Lucknow , the capital of Uttar Pradesh, has historical monuments including Bara Imambara and Chhota Imambara , and has preserved the damaged complex of the Oudh-period British Resident 's quarters ...

  9. Eduardo Mutuc - Wikipedia

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    Mutuc's pukpuk pilak NCCA. Eduardo Tubig Mutuc [1] is a Filipino metalsmith and sculptor. [2] He is a known to be a practitioner of the craft of pinukpuk which involved the stamping of embellishments on metal sheets.