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It was held that the six great arts _ visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature _ form a family of related, if largely autonomous, practices: they all work through the aesthetic, all address the imagination, and all are concerned with the symbolic embodiment of human meaning.
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It was held that the six great arts _ visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature _ form a family of related, if largely autonomous, practices: they all work through the aesthetic, all address the imagination, and all are concerned with the symbolic embodiment of human meaning.

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