A retrospective overview. A decisive figure of the Los Angeles art scene, William Leavitt has developed a singular body of work participating, on the one hand, in Conceptual art--whose important representatives, such as Douglas Huebler and John Baldessari, were also based in Los Angeles--and, on the other hand, resembling the "Narrative art" movement that emerged in the early 1970s. He is part of the same Californian artistic milieu as Allen Ruppersberg, Guy de Cointet, and Bas Jan Ader--with whom he edited the magazine Landslide in 1969-1970. Stemming from the first European retrospective of William Leavitt held at MAMCO in 2017, this volume is published with MAMCO Geneva.