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[edit]Noun
[edit]- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see allied, arts.
- Fine arts, related disciplines in literature, the visual and performing arts.
- 1968, Esther H. Paist, The allied arts in public schools[1], page 26:
- While the definition of humanities is, of necessity, fairly vague, the definition of allied arts is clearer. The allied arts, as has been stated earlier, are a category within the broad scope of humanistic studies. The allied arts course is concerned with the study of such specific areas as music, literature, the fine arts, mass communication and dance.
- 2008, Elizabeth A. Yackley, Marian MacDowell and the MacDowell Clubs[2], page 5:
- Mrs. MacDowell built [the MacDowell Colony] from the ground up, without any financial backing of her own. The Colony was founded on the philosophy of the allied arts: artists from different disciplines could influence each other's creative work.
- 2013, Kahlil Gibran, Suheil Bushrui, The Essential Gibran, →ISBN:
- Despite the fact that he feels himself to be essentially a Syrian and that he is acclaimed as the authoritative spokesman for the Arabic people in the allied arts, Gibran belongs to the world outside nationalistic interests and his art is a product of a deep sympathy with the problems which constitute the moving current of life in all nations and throughout all ages.
- 2014, Jean Holloway, Hamlin Garland: A Biography, →ISBN:
- On February 11, 1899, Garland atttended in New York a meeting of the newly organized National Instituteof Arts and Letters, an offshoot of the American Society of Science, devoted to the allied arts.
- (architecture) The decorative arts as applied to buildings.
- 1914, Thomas Kimball, “Journal of the American Institute of Architects, Volume 2”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[3], American Institute of Architects:
- [The Committee on Allied Arts] hopes that the Committee on Publicity and the Journal of the Institute may be instructed to spread abroad, as a fundamental Institute principle, the belief that sympathetic, intelligent collaboration among the allied arts is, and always has been, the only sure road to a worthy architecture in any age or any land.
Further reading
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