Oral history interview with William Weller Leavitt
name: label: Interviewee
content: Leavitt, William, 1941-
label: Interviewer
content: Leddy, Annette
topic: label: Occupation
content: Conceptual artists -- California -- Los Angeles
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content: Painters -- California -- Los Angeles
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content: 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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content: Leavitt, William, 1941-
label: Interviewer
content: Leddy, Annette
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content: Oral history interview with William Weller Leavitt
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: William Leavitt (1941-) is a Los Angeles-based artist who examines the collision of illusion and reality in Southern California film culture, which he calls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.
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content: 3 Memory cards (9 sound files (3 hrs., 54 min.), digital, wav )
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content: 85 Pages (Transcript)
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content: Recorded on Tascam DR-100MKIII 1910012
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2021 May 7-11
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.leavit21
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Memory cards
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content: Pages
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: 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.