arts
Let an agent explain the arts as a field, relay classifications, disciplines and debates about definition from arts education, cultural policy and aesthetics sources with attribution, describe the disciplines the registry aliases name, and distinguish the arts from art as a single work, from crafts, from humanities and from entertainment industries.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the arts as a field, relay classifications, disciplines and debates about definition from arts education, cultural policy and aesthetics sources with attribution, describe the disciplines the registry aliases name, and distinguish the arts from art as a single work, from crafts, from humanities and from entertainment industries.
The broad field of creative human activities and their products, including visual arts, performing arts, literature and music, and in education and classification the arts as disciplines such as language arts, art history, theory and criticism, screen and digital media arts and time-based art, practised by professionals and in amateur arts, and bridging categories such as contemporary-traditional art; definitions of the arts vary across cultures and institutions.
What it is for: Creative expression and cultural activity.
It can be explain the field; relay classifications and debates; describe named disciplines; distinguish related concepts.
Distinguishing features
Creative practice
Many disciplines
Amateur and professional
Contested definitions
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a field of activity.
Physical character
classical liberal arts: trivium and quadrivium note - different historical sense
ISCED field: arts and humanities note - UNESCO classification
registry parent: intentional human activity note
How it is recognised
Field of creative activities and disciplines
Amateur arts, language arts, art history, theory and criticism, screen and digital media arts, time-based art, contemporary-traditional art
An artwork is a product; crafts emphasise making useful objects; humanities are academic fields; entertainment industries are commercial
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
includes -
includes -
is studied in -
In practice
Families and kinds
visual arts
performing arts
literary and language arts
media and digital arts
time-based art
amateur and community arts
arts scholarship such as art history and criticism
Standards and regulation
Arts education curricula
Cultural policy and funding frameworks
Failure modes and hazards
Imposing one culture s definition
Registry aliases mixing disciplines and scholarship
Confusing arts with art objects
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.arts
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What the arts are.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What are the arts, and how do they differ from artworks, crafts, humanities and entertainment industries? definition
- Is the question about a discipline, education, policy or aesthetics? boundary
Disciplines
Named disciplines.
Disciplines
Disciplines.
- What are amateur arts, language arts, art history and criticism, screen and digital media arts, time-based art and contemporary-traditional art? definition
- Which entry fits the specific discipline? action
Theory Definitions and aesthetics.
Attribution.
Definitions
Definitions.
Definitions
Definitions.
- How have philosophers and institutions defined art and the arts, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Cultures
Across cultures.
Cultures
Cultures.
- How do different cultures categorise creative practices? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Practice Practice and policy.
Regulation.
Education
Arts education.
Education
Education.
- How are the arts taught in schools and higher education? provenance
- Which entry fits arts education? action
Policy
Cultural policy.
Policy
Policy.
- How do governments fund and support the arts, with debates attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context Community and history.
Context.
Amateur
Amateur arts.
Amateur
Amateur.
- What role do amateur and community arts play? provenance
- Which entry fits community arts? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How did the modern concept of the fine arts emerge in the 18th century? provenance
- Which entry fits fine art? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should time-based art and screen arts be separate primary entries?
- How should cultural policy sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming disciplines; should they be split off?