African art as philosophy

African Art As Philosophy

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African American Art and Artists

Looks at the works and lives of artists from the eighteenth century to the present, including work in traditional media as well as in installation art

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African Industrial Design Practice

The underlying principle of this book is the African philosophy of Ubuntu, acting as a guide for developing empathic products and services. It makes t

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Art

Aaron Ridley offers a clear and insightful examination of Nietzsche's significant thoughts on art, and covers key texts such as The Birth of Tragedy,

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Art as Research

Drawing on contributions from arts therapies, education, history, organizational studies, and philosophy, this book contains essays that critically ex

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Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture

This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes, analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as well as understanding them through th

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Philosophy of Expressive Arts Therapy

This book is the culmination of Stephen K. Levine's work and expands on the concept of poiesis, the art of 'making' as foundational for the field of e

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The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy (1626868026)

Kniha - autor Tzu Sun, 592 stran, anglicky, pevná, kůže The words of the ancient Chinese sages are as timeless as they are wise. IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner 2017! The words of ancient Chinese philosophers have influenced other thinkers across the world for more than 2,000 years, and continue to shape our ideas today. The Art of War & Other Classics of East...

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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature(Revised Edn) - Randová Ayn

Anotace: In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhea...

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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature(Revised Edn) - Ayn Randová

<p>In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead...

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The Art of War

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `Opportunities multiply as they are seized.' Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thin...

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The Art of Rhetoric - Aristotelés

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics... Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and debate became an increasingly important tool to...

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Art of the Modern Age

This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible approach to art. Jean-Marie Schaeffer, one of France's leading aestheticians, explores the writings of Kant, Schlegel, Nova...

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The Art of War - Tzu Sun

Anotace: Previous translations of The Art of War have presented Sun Tzu`s classic from the point of view of military strategy, Chinese history, or Taoist philosophy. This translation--accompanied by the translators` in-depth essays and illuminating line-by-line commentary--offers a fresh perspective on this ancient Chinese text. Here, Sun Tzu`s strategic principles of wa...

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The Art of War, 1. vydání - Sun Tzu

<p>Here is a seminal work on the philosophy of successful leadership that is as applicable to contemporary business as it is to war. James Clavell has taken a 1910 translation and clarified it for the contemporary reader.</p>

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Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions Taylor & Francis Ltd

Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions spans exhibition histories as anti-apartheid activism within South African community arts, collectivities and trade unions in Argentina, Civil Rights movements and Black communities in Baltimore, institutional self-critique within the neoliberal museum, reframing feminisms in USA, revisiting Cold War Modernisms in Eastern Eur...

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Art Since 1900: Modernism * Antimodernism * Postmodernism - Foster Hal

Anotace: Groundbreaking in both its content and its presentation, Art Since 1900 has been hailed as a landmark study in the history of art. Conceived by some of the most influential art historians of our time, this extraordinary book has now been revised, expanded and brought right up to date to include the latest developments in the study and practice of art. With a cl...

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Reconceptualizing Early Career Teacher Mentoring as Reggio-Inspired Taylor & Francis Ltd

This timely book presents an innovative approach to early career art teacher mentoring informed by both the philosophy of Reggio Emilia and an ontology of immanence while simultaneously illuminating the experiences of the teacher-participants as co-inquirers within the contemporary milieu of public education in the United States. This volume is essential reading for schol...

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The Art of War, 1. vydání - Sun Tzu

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>‘Opportunities multiply as they are seized.’</p> <p>Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle ...

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The Art of War, 1. vydání - Sun Tzu

<p>Previous translations of The Art of War have presented Sun Tzu's classic from the point of view of military strategy, Chinese history, or Taoist philosophy. This translation--accompanied by the translators' in-depth essays and illuminating line-by-line commentary--offers a fresh perspective on this ancient Chinese text. Here, Sun Tzu's strategic principles of war...

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The Art of War, 1. vydání - Sun Tzu

<p>The Art of War has been a source of great strategical inspiration throughout the ages. Focusing on military strategy, psychology and tactics, each section concentrates on a different facet of warfare and draws out important themes such as communication, strength and positioning. Believed to have been written by Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, The Art of War is highly...

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The Obstacle is the Way : The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage - Ryan Holiday

Anotace: We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling `modern Machiavelli` Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to...

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The Obstacle is the Way : The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage - Ryan Holiday

<p>We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to ...

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Marvel Comics Fine Art Socha 1/6 Storm Danger Room Sessions 39

The latest entry in Kotobukiya's Fine Art Statue line of high-quality cold cast resin statues sculpted by Erick Sosa is the Omega Level Mutant and one of the most respected heroes amongst the X-Men, Storm! Making her first appearance in Giant-Size X-Men #1 and making history as one of the first female characters of African descent, the popular mutant has since appeared in...

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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout - Cal Newport

<p>'Brilliant and timely' - Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand WeeksFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and one of the world's top productivity experts, a groundbreaking philosophy for creating great work at a sustainable pace.Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we're either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success ...

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The Daily Stoic Journal : 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living - Holiday Ryan

Anotace: Ryan Holiday has led the popular revival of stoicism since 2014, with his acclaimed bestsellers The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and - in partnership with Stephen Hanselman - The Daily Stoic. This latter offered powerful quotations, fresh anecdotes, and insightful commentary on the wisdom of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. Now Holiday and Hanse...

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The Daily Stoic Journal : 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living - Ryan Holiday

<p>Ryan Holiday has led the popular revival of stoicism since 2014, with his acclaimed bestsellers The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and - in partnership with Stephen Hanselman - The Daily Stoic. This latter offered powerful quotations, fresh anecdotes, and insightful commentary on the wisdom of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. Now Holiday and Hansel...

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The Daily Stoic : 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius - Holiday Ryan

Anotace: Where can you find joy? What`s the true measure of success? How should we manage anger? Find meaning? Conquer grief? The answers to these questions and more lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy. The Daily Stoic is a compelling, accessible guide to living a good life, offering daily doses of this classic wisdom. Long the secret weapon of history`s great figures, ...

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The Daily Stoic : 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius - Ryan Holiday

<p>Where can you find joy? What's the true measure of success? How should we manage anger? Find meaning? Conquer grief? The answers to these questions and more lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy. The Daily Stoic is a compelling, accessible guide to living a good life, offering daily doses of this classic wisdom. Long the secret weapon of history's great figures,...

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Illuminations

Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as e

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Lucifer

Drawing on an impressive array of sources from popular religion, art, literature, and drama, as well as from scholastic philosophy, mystical theology,

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Bad Men

How have African American writers drawn on bad men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question po

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Perception and Imaging

Perception and Imaging will give you an extensive understanding of how photography relates to art, design, advertising, psychology, and philosophy, as

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well

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Technics and Civilization

Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, this title explains the origin of the machine age and traces its social results, as

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Aikido - The Basics

Aikido is the Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba in the early 20th century as a synthesis of other martial arts and a philosophy of pea

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Aesthetics and Subjectivity

New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed, but asccesible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities, following the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Ficthe and Holderlin, the early Romantis, ...

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Nonhuman Photography - Zylinska Joanna

Anotace: A new philosophy of photography that goes beyond humanist concepts to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent, as both subject and agent.Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new phil...

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The Little Book of Love - Orange Hippo!, Orange Hippo!

Anotace: The most inspiring, beautiful and though-provoking reflections and declarations of love, all in one place.From Shakespeare`s sonnets to the rom coms of modern-day cinema, Enlightenment philosophy to the latest Nicholas Sparks novel, one could say that no other topic has inspired such beauty - in art, literature, poetry or music - than that of love.In The Little ...

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Little Book of Love

The most inspiring, beautiful and though-provoking reflections and declarations of love, all in one place. From Shakespeare's sonnets to the rom coms of modern-day cinema, Enlightenment philosophy to the latest Nicholas Sparks novel, one could say that no other topic has inspired such beauty - in art, literature, poetry or music - than that of love. In The Little Book o...

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Four Centuries of Quilts

Quilts are among the most utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a formal beauty that rivals anything made on canvas. This landmark book, drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, highlights the splendour and craft of quilts with more than 300 superb colour images and details. Fascinating essays by two noted sch...

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Metakunsthistorie - Jakub Stejskal

Anotace: "Kultura", "styl", "forma", "obraz", "médium", "kontext" nebo "materiál" jsou pojmy, s kterými běžně operujeme, když přemýšlíme o minulých i současných uměleckých dílech. Tato kniha je určená všem těm, jež zajímá myšlenkové podloží těchto pojmů a to, jakou roli hrály a hrají v akademických i n...

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Metakunsthistorie - Pojmy a dojmy uměleckohistorické představivosti - Jakub Stejskal

<p> "Kultura", "styl", "forma", "obraz", "médium", "kontext" nebo "materiál" jsou pojmy, s kterými běžně operujeme, když přemýšlíme o minulých i současných uměleckých dílech. Tato kniha je určená všem těm, jež zajímá myšlenkové podloží těchto pojmů a to, jakou roli hrály a hrají v akademických i n...

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Mies van der Rohe

Famed for his motto “less is more,” Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth-century aesthetics and urban experience. Mies van der Rohe’s philosophy was one of underlying truth in pure forms and proportions. With the help of contemporary technological and material developments, ...

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Bruce W. Talamon: Soul. R&amp;B. Funk: Photographs 1972–1982 - Reuel Golden

<p>Get down with such legends as Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind &amp; Fire, Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, the Jackson Five, Diana Ross, James Brown, and Chaka Khan in this collection of largely unseen images from the golden age of soul, R&amp;B, and funk. Sourced from our superfly Art Edition, this XL volume gathers all of the glamour and groove captured by photogr...

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How to be Perfect - Schur Mike

Anotace: * From the writer and executive producer of the award-winning Netflix series The Good Place that made moral philosophy fun: a foolproof guide to making the correct moral decision in every situation you ever encounter, anywhere on earth, forever *How can we live a more ethical life?This question has plagued people for thousands of years, but it`s never been tough...

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Fundamental Painting - Claudia Rajlich

Anotace: Fundamental Painting (1975): Lessons in Minimalist Painting is the first account of this 1970s current and its role in the history of 20th century painting. The term Fundamental Painting was coined by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam as the title of a 1975 exhibition that sought to highlight a new kind of painting emerging on both sides of the Atlantic. It was bui...

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Fundamental Painting - Lessons in Minimalist Painting - Claudia Rajlich

<p>Fundamental Painting (1975): Lessons in Minimalist Painting is the first account of this 1970s current and its role in the history of 20th century painting. The term Fundamental Painting was coined by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam as the title of a 1975 exhibition that sought to highlight a new kind of painting emerging on both sides of the Atlantic. It was buil...

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On Description - Alice Jedličková

Anotace: There are probably not many readers who would cherish their memories of writing a description at school... <br> Nevertheless, hardly anyone would deny that we cannot do without descriptions in everyday face-to-face dialogues - though only a few of us may be able to reflect on the process of describing, and to judge to what extent it is influenced by the ci...

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On Description

There are probably not many readers who would cherish their memories of writing a description at school… Nevertheless, hardly anyone would deny that we cannot do without descriptions in everyday face-to-face dialogues – though only a few of us may be able to reflect on the process of describing, and to judge to what extent it is influenced by the circumstances surrounding...

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On Description - Alice Jedličková

<p>There are probably not many readers who would cherish their memories of writing a description at school…</p><p>Nevertheless, hardly anyone would deny that we cannot do without descriptions in everyday face-to-face dialogues – though only a few of us may be able to reflect on the process of describing, and to judge to what extent it is influenced by th...

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Francesc Rifé. Interior / Industrial - Mireia Casanovas

<p>The third illustrated monograph from Loft Publications celebrating the very latest work of the Barcelona-based interior, commercial and industrial designer whose award-winning work is based on the adventurous use of space and its geometric proportions. Rife"s career as an interior and industrial designer begins during the period of his academic training thro...

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A Long Arc: Photography and the American South

<p>Collects over 175 years of key moments in the visual history of the Southern United States, with over two hundred and fifty photographs taken from 1845 to present.</p> <p>The South is perhaps the most mythologized region in the United States and also one of the most depicted. Since the dawn of photography in the nineteenth century, photographers have ...

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Emil Holub - Tomáš Winter

Anotace: Jak dnes vnímáme Emila Holuba a aktivity, které jsou s ním spojené? Jak toto vnímání ovlivňují nejrůznější mýty a legendy? Jakou hodnotu mají jeho sbírky, jak s nimi pracoval Holub a jak s nimi pracuje současná výstavní a sbírkotvorná praxe? Kde všude se můžeme s předměty těchto sbírek setkat? Jak vnímat Holuba pohledem postkoloniálních studií? Kniha neusiluje o...

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Emil Holub - Průvodce výstavou / Exhibition Guide - Tomáš Winter

<p>Jak dnes vnímáme Emila Holuba a aktivity, které jsou s ním spojené? Jak toto vnímání ovlivňují nejrůznější mýty a legendy? Jakou hodnotu mají jeho sbírky, jak s nimi pracoval Holub a jak s nimi pracuje současná výstavní a sbírkotvorná praxe? Kde všude se můžeme s předměty těchto sbírek setkat? Jak vnímat Holuba pohledem postkoloniálních studií? Kniha neusiluje o ...

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Western Civilization Bites Back

"Anyone who experienced Jonathan Bowden speak in public was in awe of his ability to thrill and inspire his audiences. His energy and personal magnetism were truly amazing and a huge asset to our cause. In reading these essays, most of which are transcriptions from his talks, one is also impressed by his very broad intellectual background and his far-ranging interests-art...

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Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin of the Social State of Man

Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (December 8, 1767-March 25, 1825) was a French author, poet, and composer whose biblical and philosophical hermeneutics in?uenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi and Gerard Encausse (Papus), and René Guénon. D'Olivet spent his life pursuing the esoteric wisdom concealed in the Hebrew scriptures, Greek philosophy, and the symbolism of many anci...

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Mozambique - turistický průvodce

Now in its eighth edition, Bradt’s Mozambique remains the most established and sole standalone guide to this alluring African country. In-depth coverage of wildlife, history, culture, and diving and snorkelling is complemented by invaluable, up-to-date practical advice on travel and accommodation, presented in an easy-to-navigate geographical structure covering north, cen...

Fashion Designers A–Z. 40th Anniversary Edition - Suzy Menkes

<p>Celebrating over a century of fashion’s greatest talents, from Azzedine Alaïa and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen and Yves Saint Laurent. This updated edition features photographs of hundreds of garments selected from the permanent collection of the Fashion Institute of Technology’s museum in New York City.</p> <p> </p> <p>Defining design...

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Big Panda and Tiny Dragon - James Norbury

<p>A thought-provoking journey of companionship, courage, tenderness, and tea. Big Panda and Tiny Dragon embark on a journey through the seasons of the year together. They get lost, as many of us do. But while lost, they discover many beautiful sights they'd never have found had they gone the right way. Told through a series of beautiful drawings and quiet, sometim...

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