The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

Mesopotamia is generally considered to be the location of the earliest civilization or complex society, meaning that it contained cities, full-time division of labor, social concentration of wealth into capital, unequal distribution of wealth, ruling classes, community ties based on residency rather than kinship, long distance trade, monumental architecture, standardized forms of art and culture, writing, and mathematics and science.

The division of surviving works between Hubert, early Jan van Eyck, and other painters has been the subject of great debate among art historians, involving the Ghent Altarpiece, the Turin-Milan Hours and other pieces.

Tange also enrolled in the film division at Nihon University's art department to dodge Japan's drafting of young men to its military and seldom attended classes.

The Cones shared an appreciation for art and conversation about it and modeled a domestic division of labor that Stein would replicate in her relationship with Alice B. Toklas.

* Focus Features, the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Studios

The idea of a " main stream " of literary output suggested that any book deviating, in either content or form or both, from the established norm of " high art " was " cheap ", and anyone interested in popular culture was uneducated and unsophisticated and most probably originated in a lower socio-economic division of the contextual society.

Literacy in art became widespread, as did the practice of art making, and there was a blurring of the division between high and low culture.

) Until 2001, Christie's East, a division that sold lower-priced art and objects, was located at 219 East 67th Street.

In 1981, United Artists Classics, which had formerly been a division of the company that re-released library titles, was turned into a first run art film distributor by Nathaniel T. Kwit Jr. Tom Bernard was hired as the division's head of sales, and Ira Deutchman as its head of marketing.

More important influences include Hegel, whose concept of the dialectic underlies the tripartite division of art into the Apollonian, its Dionysian antithesis, and their synthesis in Greek tragedy.

Romero hired John D. Carmack into the department from his freelancing in Kansas City, moved Adrian Carmack into the division from Softdisk's art department, and persuaded Tom Hall to come in at night and help with game design.

The Prussian collections became separated during the Cold War during the division of the city, but were reunited after German reunification, except for the art and artefacts removed after World War II by Allied troops and not yet returned ; these include the Priam's Treasure, also called the gold of Troy, excavated by Heinrich Schliemann in 1873, then smuggled out of Turkey to Berlin and today kept at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

He was the director of the Southern California division of the federal Works Project Administration from 1935 to 1942, and personally completed several major civic art projects, including the murals in Santa Monica City Hall.

The Art Bank is a division of the Canada Council for the Arts that rents works of art to public and private sector offices.

Ace Pictures Inc. was founded in 1981 as a division of Nippon Herald Films to produce Japanese films and distribute foreign art films.

He was invited by William Sturgis Bigelow to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1904 and became the first head of the Asian art division in 1910.

Apart from enlarged and sometimes slightly elaborated initials opening the Ammonian sections ( the contemporary equivalent of the modern division into verses ), and others in red at the start of chapters, the text has no illumination or decoration, but Sir David Wilson, historian of Anglo-Saxon art and Director of the British Museum, used it as his example in writing " some manuscripts are so beautifully written that illumination would seem only to spoil them ".

Byzantine art is the art of the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire formed after the division of the Roman Empire between Eastern and Western halves, and sometimes of parts of Italy under Byzantine rule.

The Pecos Classification is a division of all known Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture into chronological phases, based on changes in architecture, art, pottery, and cultural remains.

Some of his art work is preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taipei and Arthur M. Sackler Museum ( a division of Harvard Art Museum ) in Cambridge.

" The division of labor is to abolish this division, and everyone should participate in science and art as well as lower work.

The film's full name was later restored in Britain, in February 2006, when Optimum Asia – a division of London-based Optimum Releasing – acquired the UK distribution rights to the Studio Ghibli collection.

A Greatest Hits collection was released on March 15, 2005, through Rhino Entertainment, a division of the Warner Music Group.

* Khuddaka Nikaya, the fifth nikaya ( collection ) of the Sutta Pitaka division of the Buddhist Pali Canon

In addition to its unusual title, this collection of thirteen short stories and essays is notable also for having a division three quarters of the way down the page, above which appear the stories, below which appears an essay about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.

XYZed was established by Optus in 2000 to provide wholesale business-grade DSL services under an individual brand, but today provides a collection of products only as part of the Optus Wholesale & Satellite division.

Organized as a division of Corbis Images, the France-based company, renamed Corbis Sygma, added an astounding 40 million additional images to the company's collection, expanding Corbis's portfolio beyond 65 million images.

* Comcast SportsNet, collection of regional sports networks operated as a division of the NBC Sports Group.

This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence, and maturity.

* Civil War Photographs collection, Prints & Photographs division, Library of Congress

It is included in the so-called " Ark ", which is a collection of papers with some handwritten notes from the group's early days, about the topics members have spoken on, and the results of the division in which those present voted on the debate.

After Sprague died in 1934, his widow Harriet turned over a substantial amount of material from his collection to the New York Public Library, where it remains today accessible to the public via the rare books division.

The center's research division houses the world's largest collection of Cajun and Creole folklore, oral history, and folklife materials and some of the nation's largest microfilm collections of French and Spanish colonial records.

The collection was first published by Harper Paperbacks ( a division of HarperCollins Publishers ) in 1995.

Most of the buses in the collection were built by the GMC division of General Motors, and represent the vehicles that replaced the streetcars in the Twin Cities in the 1950s.

There is also a collection of his photos in the Prentiss Taylor collection in the Archive of American Art, a division of the Smithsonian Institution and a Van Vechten collection at Fisk University.

With the end of hostilities, 15 August, the division was concerned with the collection and processing of prisoners of war, leaving November 1945 for the States and demobilization.

Meehan did provide a small collection of periodicals for Congressional perusal which, under later Librarians, became the periodicals division.

The Institute is notable for its unusual and unique reference system: the Institute's collection is arranged by subject according to Warburg's division of human history into the categories of Action, Orientation, Word, and Image.

* The GSO III ( Intelligence ) coordinated all intelligence training and work in the division ; coordinated the collection and collation of information about enemy dispositions, methods and intentions ; prepared daily intelligence summaries ; coordinated interpretation of air photographs with the Army Photographic Interpretation Section ( APIS ); effected liaison with the APIS, the field security office and the Intelligence Officer, Royal Artillery ( at CRA ); and was responsible for briefing and handling of press correspondents.

Though Macy-Potter's first ( and only ) collection was a critical and financial disaster, Potter went on to design a collection for Marshall Field and later to direct the custom-fashion division of Hattie Carnegie, the New York fashion company, succeeding Jean Louis, who left in 1943 to become chief fashion designer for Columbia Pictures.

He took command of a loose collection of units, and formed them into the Americal Division ( a contraction of " American, New Caledonian Division " adopted as the divisions name on Patchs suggestion after it was proposed by a soldier in the division.