Traditionally, the arts have been divided into two categories, the fine arts and the liberal arts. ... The fine arts, a translation of the French beaux-arts, are more concerned with purely the aesthetic. ... Another traditional system of classification, applied to the fine arts, establishes such categories as literature, the visual arts, the graphic arts, the plastic arts, the decorative arts, the performing arts, music, and architecture. ... The distinction between artist and craftsman hardly appears before the Renaissance, and the term fine arts, does not appear until the mid-18th century. ....

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In Burnham's later buildings, such as the towering Flatiron Building in New York City, the steel frame was hidden by traditional beaux-arts facing. ... After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he spent a year in Paris at the École Des Beaux-Arts and in the office of a French architect. ... Concerned with fine arts and beauty as well as being a working architect, he 7 expressed his ideas in lectures and writings, including the classic Autobiography of an Idea. ...

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In the mid-nineteenth century, when Paris was undergoing change, the Académie des Beaux-Arts was in control of French art. The Académie ensured that they always preserved the traditional French standards with regard to the style of painting and content that was being produced. Acceptable conten...

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Politics, art, and utopia in French anarchism and Italian futurism 1890-1920 In Paroles d'un revolte, Peter Kropotkin outlined a new vision for the arts as part of his anarchist philosophy, asserting that "the arts have a mission to accomplish for the achievement of the future society... ...

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He had studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Leon Bonnat, shown in the Paris Salons of 1903-05, met Le Douanier Rousseau, been a member of the Salon d'Automne, and painted side by side with Albert Marquet. ...

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