matter to positive-representation art. Only representations matter, and representations in art perform a function not unlike monarchs in constitutional monarchies, or presidents in parliamentary republics: a figurehead function, meant as a living symbol, with no real power—except, of course, for the enormous and indelible “soft” power they wield as symbolic incarnations of everything their country supposedly means, values, and venerates. Representation Matters Art wants delegates, not people; a Crazy Rich Asian, an Asian Cowboy, an Asian Brad Pitt, an Asian Superhero, an Asian Joan of Arc, One
...more
