Image / Work by Allen Ruppersberg

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Title: Work by Allen Ruppersberg
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Gulker, Chris
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption reads, "This wall of 20 canvases at the Temporary Contemporary is 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray' by conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg, who reproduced in longhand word for word the Oscar Wilde novel in its entirety. This is included in the MoCA exhibition 'Allen Ruppersberg: The Secret of Life and Death' through May 26." Photograph dated February 24, 1985.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078157
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b041_f2_i51
CARL0000079394
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24522
Subject: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Installations (Art)--California--Los Angeles--Exhibitions
Art--California--Los Angeles--Exhibitions
Art museums--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Ruppersberg, Allen,1944-
Wilde, Oscar,1854-1900.Picture of Dorian Gray

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