Many forms of expression combine aesthetic concerns with utilitarian purposes; pottery, architecture, metalworking, and advertising design may be cited as examples. ... His sweet grass baskets are not only usable but they are beautiful with each having a unique design of its own. ... 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. ...

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"Music illuminates a person through and through. It is also his last hope and final refuge. And even half mad Stalin, a beast and a butcher, instinctively sensed that about music. That is why he feared and hated it." - Dmitri Shostakovich On November 7, 1917, the Russian Bolsheviks stormed the Win...

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