An interview? What an interesting way to arrange an artist, like Louise Lawler’s thoughts and opinions on her own artwork and dedication to the craft of photography. Lawler has many different approaches to art such as the installation photography, the wall text, the gallery announcement, and the art book. Crimp comments on LL’s art form by saying, “…makes it perhaps odd to describe her work as art rather than as some form of intervention into ways that other already existing artworks are presented or being readied for presentation or being withheld from presentation” (191).
It is pretty clear through the writing of this descriptive interview that Lawler is a complicated person and gets her artistic thrills from confounding artwork and making something so familiar seem so foreign by changing its meaning completely. In her book, “An Arrangement of Pictures” she claims there’s a difference between what is shown and how the pictures actually exist in various formats and sizes in my work. Why does LL do what she does? What significance does this hold for her or is there really any significance at all? All I was able to conclude from this interview is that LL’s work and thinking process behind her work is anything but straightforward. Art for LL is part parcel of a cumulative and collective enterprise and there are many things that go into a work of art. Overall, her perspective on art was slightly confusing to understand and interpret but LL just may be one of those artists that were not meant to understand completely.
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"My reservations are about wanting to foreground the work and not the artist." While reading the interview between Louise Lawler and Crimp I was very impressed by Lawler. I was very impressed with her way of explaning her photographs without really giving away any meaning which should be found by the audience themselves. Lawler is a very intersting artist in my opinion. I think that her way of presenting her art, by using different mediums, by both using captions and choosing not to use caption, by taking photographs of her own photographs, to takng photographs of random circumstances. I think that her way of going about her work is very respectable and throughtout the interview I got the impression that her main focus truly is to affect the viewer looking at her photograph; "the pictures that woek are those that are affecting in some other ways." She wants to be different, to not merely follow what is being done by other artists. But throughout she was also keen on keeping the meaning she feels to herself but giving background to some of the texts/captions. Crimp respondes by saying, accurately, "the person to whom we grant the greatest credibility regarding a work of art is the artist who made it."
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