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The arts and literature include a diverse range of human practices collectively known as "the arts." These practices are integral to culture and the humanities.
While the term "art" is often viewed as a reference to the visual arts, "the arts" encompasses a broader spectrum. The arts include the visual arts, the literary arts, and the performing arts, which encompass music, theater, dance, spoken word, and film. These creative expressions and philosophy fall within the larger realm of the humanities.
The arts consist of various disciplines intended for audience entertainment and appreciation, whether the audience is a single viewer or a larger group. Artistic forms span prose writing, poetry, dance, acting, drama, film, music, sculpture, photography, illustration, architecture, collage, painting, crafts, and fashion. In essence, the arts involve aesthetics, creativity, and evoking emotion--often pleasurable, though not always.
We can further categorize the arts into fine arts (aimed at aesthetic pleasure), decorative arts, and applied arts (which enhance everyday life with aesthetics). According to Merriam-Webster, the arts encompass diverse branches of creative activity, including painting, music, literature, and dance.
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Founded in 1997, Alibris is an online retailer that sells new, used, and out-of-print books, textbooks, rare books, music, and movies. The company has a buy-back program for textbook sales, and textbooks are sorted by course or subject area. Other books are sorted by genre, popular authors, rare books, and a section for kids and young adult books. Music can also be found by genre, classical music or popular artists, movies by genre, popular actors and directors, or critically acclaimed films.
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