"Sometimes Levine collaborates with Louise Lawler under the collective title "A Picture is No Substitute for Anything"- and enquivocal critique of representation as traditionally defined. (E.H. Gombrich: "All art is image-making, and all image-making is the creation of substitutes.") Does not their collaboration move us to ask what the picture is supposedly for, what it replaces, what absence it conceals? A Movie without the Picture" as she did in 1979 in Los Angeles and again in 1983 in New York, is she simple soliciting the spectator as a collaborator in the production of the image? Or is she not also denying the viewer the kind of visual pleasure which cinema customarily provides- a pleasure that has been linked with the masculine perversions voyeurism and scopophilia? It seems fitting, then, that in Los Angeles she screened (or didn't screen) The Misfits-Marilyn Monroe's last completed film. So that what Lawler withdrew was not simply a picture, but the archetypical image of feminine desirability."