By Ann Goldstein and Bennett Simpson This catalogue accompanied the first solo museum exhibition and retrospective of Los Angeles-based artist William Leavitt. Exhibition dates March 13 -July 3rd 2011 A key figure associated with the emergence and foundations of conceptual art in Los Angeles during the late 1960s and '70s, Leavitt is primarily concerned with narrative and narrative forms. Since 1969, his works have employed ordinary fragments of popular and vernacular culture and modernist architecture as both props and signifiers to produce a distilled narrative. The culture and atmosphere of Los Angeles has played a significant role in Leavitt's ongoing interest in "the theater of the ordinary" and the play between illusion and reality and nature and artifice that characterizes the city. Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011Softcover with 144 pages, illustrated throughoutDimensions: 12 x 9 inchesThis title is out of print Condition: Good, clean flat copy
