Art as Politics: Expression, Legitimation and Critique

Art as Politics: Expression, Legitimation and Critique Toronto, March 13-16, 2017 All across Asia artists, writers, musicians, dramatists, and architects have used their expressive capacities, and now increasingly new media - to critique the status quo, political regimes, and social establishments. At the same time, states and other powerful patrons regularly use and support expressive forms to celebrate and legitimate their own authority. At times, individual artists and communities of arti..