An interview with William Weller Leavitt conducted 2021 May 7-11, by Annette C. Leddy for the Archives of American Art, at Leddy's home in Los Angeles, California.
Biographical / Historical:
William Leavitt (1941-) is a Los Angeles-based artist who examines the collision of illusion and reality in Southern California film culture, which he calls "the theater of the ordinary," through painting, photography, performance, and installation. Leavitt is associated with West Coast Conceptualism.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
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Occupation:
Conceptual artists -- California -- Los Angeles Search this
