It describes the desire for and practice of combining various art forms into a whole, such as performances that combine text, visual arts, music, dance, and architecture.
According to an article in the December 1879 issue of Harper's New Monthly magazine, a Ladies Class for "those who desire to combine some of the elegancies of artistic cookery with those economical interests which it is the duty of every woman to study" covered marketing, cooking and carving at a cost of $1 or session, or $10 for the course.
Next up was Being Human, apparently the result of a desire to combine the BBC's desire for a modern answer to This Life with the latter-day craze for high supernatural concepts.
Film, it has been argued, was the opera of the 20th century -- the fullest realization of the human desire to combine the arts into a whole that would surpass the sum of its parts.
He lived another two years, dying from tuberculosis in Paris at 39. Schumann's desire to combine the arts of poetry and music achieved a blissful synthesis when he turned to song in 1840, a burst of creativity that surrounded his marriage to Clara.
The skills provide different ways of combining these sensory-motor functions to achieve the desired task.
Management is the art of combining resources in innovative ways to get a desired outcome.
But many small wine makers are motivated primarily by a love of wine and a desire to combine agriculture with an art that has existed for thousands of years.
We hear him talk about his now famous concept of combining the music of the Beatles and Black Sabbath, and his desire to combine pop with punk even though his peers didn't think it was cool.
Parents could consider the possibility of combining different forms of childcare, working patterns and costs to achieve their desired outcome.
