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- noun Plural form of
artform .
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Examples
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Again, these are artforms with centuries of history and theory behind them, on which some of the greatest minds in history have toiled.
Kicking The Dog SVGL 2009
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I like to dive into the richness of any of these artforms and experience all of the variety and subtle nuances that each new song, movie, or game provides.
Tunes For Thought SVGL 2009
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But if we can think more abstractly about what a game is in the first place, I think we can find a lot of cross-pollination between written artforms and visual-interactive ones.
Welcome To Hell SVGL 2009
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He talks about how emerging artforms like video games and street art can find a place alongside what he calls the "heritage arts" opera and symphonies.
Jillian Burt: The Concept of Reuse Is Regenerating the Arts and Culture in Australia 2010
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In this most verbal of artforms, one that's intimately bound up with cultural references, identity and wordplay, could they possibly succeed?
Translating jokes into English leads comics to new punch lines 2010
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The exhibition ends with stunning displays of two ancient Japanese artforms in their most recent manifestations.
In Search of Beauty David Littlejohn 2010
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The music ties so deeply to the imagery, that modern artists reproduce the images identically, and the images inspire the story in an endless cycle, sustaining both artforms.
The Power of a Song and Story Jess Granger 2009
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It practically proves that all cultures proceed as an arc, with a wildly creative early phase that matures and eventually stagnates into derivative artforms.
Economics and Modernity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As a simple example Spengler offers a multitude, the Greeks understood numbers but not zero, so eventually their math artforms stagnated when it could not circumvent this limit.
Economics and Modernity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I am so #@$%-ing tired of Freudian mama crap masquerading as character development that I think the entire subject of motherhood should probably just be barred from all narrative artforms.
ABUSIVE PARENT BRINGS CATHARSIS; IN OTHER NEWS, BSG SUX 2007
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