Rita Leppiniemi, Yemen Latitudes: An Exploration of the Everydayness in Arabia Felix, map, images, and cartoons of Yemen, texts by Rita Leppiniemi, Mahmoud Al-Hakimi, Yasser Al-Mayasi, Hassan Al-Zaidi, Hassan Al-Haifi, Montaha Sultan Fara.
Asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, Rancière goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?
