Dedications.

What do we study, when we study "Law and the Arts"? Separate out "the arts" into "literature" and "the visual arts." In the Academy, the relations between law and literature are typically studied thus: (a) the law of literature; (b) literary works that address the law; (c) law as literature. The relations between law and the visual arts figure as a more limited and remote version of this law / literature nexus: (a) art law; (b) art works that address legal themes; (c) law as art. And yet, if we imagine (as we must) law and the arts as distinct systems, correspondences in their content turn out to be apparent only. This article thus questions the received taxonomies, through a close analysis of the two dedications attached by Flaubert to his novel Madame Bovary. The article concludes: "Law and the Arts" as an interdisciplinary undertaking is better understood as a hybrid of two other titles: Law with Arts, Law vs. Arts, that is, Law and Arts United, Law and Arts in Conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]