Critical Writing Index

Wilde About Harry

by Peter Plagens

Artforum, Apr. 1975, v. 13, no. 8, pp. 68-70

In this article, Peter Plagens reviews Allen Ruppersberg's videotape A Lecture on Houdini (1972) on view at the Whitney Museum's Biennial. Plagens provides both a description of the work and the historical background of its content, citing Rupperberg as a structuralist and his art as magical as his subject matter.

ITEM 1975.063 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

A Lecture on HoudiniAllen Ruppersberg

The Picture of Dorian GrayAllen Ruppersberg