The Performance Arts: Happens in real time such as live theatre i.e: Broadway shows

The Representational Arts: Conveys information about the subject to the observer by through literature and pictures such as comic books, manga and story books

The Recording Arts: Provides a direct path between the subject and the observer but are more direct than representational arts such as music and film

These categories can be blurred together due to the technological advances that humanity has made. A good example of this would be ‘Heathers’.

It was originally a film that got turned into a musical and later on into a tv show. This blurred the boundaries between the 3 different types of art as it’s been changed form a screenplay into a live action piece therefore mixing both the recording arts and the performance arts.