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William Leavitt: Installations, Plays, Video, 1970-2018

William Leavitt: Installations, Plays, Video, 1970-2018

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Film & Video ArtIndividual ArtistsSculpture & Installation

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ISBN10: 3037645962
ISBN13: 9783037645963
Publisher: Jrpeditions
Published: Dec 27 2022
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 9.60 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

A compact introduction to the LA conceptualist's deadpan explorations of the American popular imaginary

Part of the same milieu as Allen Ruppersberg, Guy de Cointet and Bas Jan Ader (with whom he edited the magazine Landslide in 1969-70), William Leavitt (born 1941) is a decisive figure of the Los Angeles art scene. Through his installations and videos, drawings and paintings, play and sound performances, Leavitt reexamines the production of the Western imaginary as imposed by the Hollywood factory. Also at play in his exploration of the theater of the ordinary is the coexistence of nature and artifice, exemplified by such landmark works as Forest Sound (1970) and California Patio (1972).

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