Art and Representation

In Japan, there is an old proverb that goes: "井の中の蛙大海を知らず" which is literally translated as "a frog in a well knows not what the ocean is like," implying a persong who has no interest in or has no knowledge of the outside world but only of his own. Similarly, in Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes, the w...

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