Quality is crucial for disability arts: poor work fails artists and audiences

The Guardian,
28 April 2015, United Kingdom

“Works of art which lack artistic quality have no force, no matter how progressive they are politically,” declared Mao Zedong, and although I don’t often find myself in accord with the late Chinese Communist leader, I reckon he was right in this instance. Great art often has a social function, but not every piece of work made with a social or political agenda turns out to be great art.

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