art and literature
Culture's twin pillars
Art and literature refers to creative and written works considered together as a cultural domain.
The phrase groups visual, performing, and literary arts into a single category, often in educational or institutional contexts: She studied art and literature at university, The grant supports art and literature programs.
It implies humanistic culture broadly rather than any specific medium.
- fine artsCreative visual disciplines
- graphic novelBook-length illustrated sequential narrative
- creative writingOriginal literary expression
- paintingPigment on canvas
- theaterVenue for live drama
poetry · found poetry · short story · dance · ballet · essay · novel · memoir · drama · epic · mime · sound art · satire · puppetry · allegory · multimedia art · sculpture · improvisation
art and literatureSTEM
Four-discipline academic grouping
hard sciences · mathematics · natural sciences · physics · engineering
art and literaturemanual labor
Work done bodily
industry · commerce · manufacturing · business · trade
art and literaturebarbarism
Savage, uncivilized behavior
philistinism · vulgarity · crudeness · bureaucracy · technocracy
artist, artists, artistic, artistry, artful, artfully, artless, literature, literary