Theatre vs. Other Arts

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Represents (Abstract or Concrete)

Uses What Senses?
Must Use Space (Spatial)
Must Use Time (Temporal)*
Is the Artist Present???
MUSIC
Abstract--Could be considered the most pure--uses only one sense.
Hearing
No
Yes
????
GRAPHIC ART
Concrete/Abstract
Sight
Two Dimensions
No
No
SCULPTURE/ ARCHITECTURE
Concrete/Abstract
Sight

Three Dimensions

No
No
DANCE
Concrete/Abstract
Sight and Hearing
Three Dimensions
Yes
Yes??
LITERATURE
Abstract(Uses words to convey both concrete and abstract ideas; cognitive)
Sight and Imagination
Not the work itself. (The book exists physically, but what is the "literature?")
To read, yes, but varies from reader to reader.
No
THEATER
BOTH CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT AND IMAGINATION THROUGH IMITATION: "MIMESIS"
EITHER THE LEAST PURE OR THE MOST PURE--USES ALL THE SENSE

AN AMALGAM OF ALL THE ARTS--USES SPACE, TIME, (LITERATURE) DANCE (MOVEMENTS)

ARCHITECTURE GRAPHIC DESIGN, MUSIC (SOUND)

ALL THAT THE OTHER ARTS HAVE.

A performance with an audience, different from TV or movies.

Literature and theatre tend to depict crises embodying eternal questions and universal processes of existence.