what is the eight art?

Question

eg. cinema sculpture and..........

Answer 1

I believe the "eighth art" is MOST often said to be TELEVISION (though other suggestions have been made!)
example: the book title, * Eighth Art: Twenty-Three Views of Television Today*
http://www.strandbooks.com/profile/?isbn=1199862797
see also:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4019938

For other readers (I assume you already know this) this is an extension NOT of "the seven liberal arts" or various other "arts" lists, but of the system developed by Ricciotto Canudo (1879-1923), "the first theoritician of cinema". Canudo first argued that there were five ancient arts, but later expanded this to six and proposed CINEMA as the SEVENTH (a syntheis of the others).

Canudo's full-blown scheme is best know from his 1923 work, *Reflections on the Seventh Art*.

His scheme:
*architecture. sculpture, painting
*music, dance, poetry
*cinema

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricciotto_Canudo

For what it's worth, French view COMICS as the ninth art
http://www.tscholars.com/encyclopedia/Franco-Belgian_comics

Answer 2

I'm not sure what the first seven traditional arts are, but I think they're music, dance, painting, sculpture, literature, poetry, and theater. How about photography for the eighth, more modern, art?

Answer 3

Um...doing a reverse bank on the eight ball and sinking it!

Answer 4

i dont kno, you tell me