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The Art of Living
(Millennium series)

VHS
60 minutes
GN380 .M561 1992 no.5

Why does Western society expect artists to define the meaning of life and connect it to our lives? In tribal cultures, where they have no word for "art" or "artist", views of life and death are traditionally expressed in everyday life by everyone in the community. In "The Art of Living", travel with program narrator David Maybury-Lewis to the Wodaabe tribe of Niger and the Dogon people of Mali to witness the ways they celebrate life and death with acts of beauty and grace. And meet a North American artist who shows us his way of connecting his art to the meaning of life and death.

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