Meaning of allied arts | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see allied, arts.
   plural, plural-only
2. Fine arts, related disciplines in literature, the visual and performing arts.
   plural, plural-only
3. The decorative arts as applied to buildings.
   plural, plural-only

Examples

“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⟳.”

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“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.”

“[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⟳.”

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