Noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see allied, arts.
Fine arts, related disciplines in literature, the visual and performing arts.
(architecture) The decorative arts as applied to buildings.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgA great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. Christopher Hampton