Three early video catalogues from Germany

(1) Video Tapes - Video Bänder. Kölnischer Kunstverein. Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1974. Softcover, 30 x 21 cm, 40 pp. Edition of 1500. Catalogue released in connection with 'Projekt 74; aspects of international art in the beginning of the 1970s'. Great documentation of video works, illustrated in approx. 300 small b/w tv frames, featuring Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Chris Burden, Nancy Holt, Rebecca Horn, Peter Hutchinson, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, Les Levine, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Aldo Tambellini, Wolf Vostell, William Wegman and many others. Text in German by Wulf Herzogenrath (Video as artistic medium).

(2) Video Katalog Oppenheim Studio Köln, 1975. Softcover, 29.5 x 21 cm, 190 pp. b/w ills. Document of the remarkable video production studio and gallery founded by collector Ingrid Oppenheim in 1974. Text by Jean-Christophe Ammann, contributions by Klaus von Bruch, Michael Buthe, John Gibson, Dennis Oppenheim, C. O. Paeffgen, Charlemagne Palestine, Ulrike Rosenbach et al. Name of former owner on interior of front cover. (3) Videokunst in Deutschland 1963-1982: Videobander, Installationen, Objekte, Performances, Fotografien. Stuttgart, Ars Viva and Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1982. Edited by Wulf Herzogenrath. Softcover, 21 x 16 cm, 320 p. Text in German. Important overview of video art, profusely illustrated throughout. All three books in very good condition. (total 3)