Performance Arts – happen in real time.

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Representational Arts – depend on the established codes and conventions of language (both pictorial and literary) to convey information about the subject to the observer.

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Recording Arts – provide a more direct path between subject and observer: media not without their own codes but qualitatively more direct than the media of the representational arts.

(Source – ‘How To Read A Film’ by James Monaco)