The Role of Art in the World

Ivalambua: I find this a thrilling way to think about what art is and what art does in the world. Do you believe this is the role of all art or only good art? Do artists do this intentionally or unintentionally? And or does your method, because this book is as much about your method as it is about Gerhard Richter's work?" He says he doesn't have a clear resolution in the methodological model which says painting works like a linguistic operation. "Some paintings also fail to operate like linguistic operations and they operate like returns from somewhere else"