Audio Video Performance Two publications on video... Lot 6299

[Audio Video Performance] Two publications on video art, 1976-1977 (1) Video End, Pfirsich 16/17/18, July 1976. Graz, Pool, 1976. Large softcover, 35.5 x 30 cm, 97 pp. Edited by Richard Kriesche, H.G. Haberl and Karl Neubacher. Special issue of Pfirsich magazine dedicated to Video Art, published in conjunction with the Video Conference organized by Steirischen Herbst in Graz. Texts in German, English, and some French and Italian, profusely ill. in b/w. Contributions by Wolf Vostell, Michael Druks, Wulf Herzogenrath, Friederike Pezold, David A. Ross, Mia Santanera et al. Covers heavily rubbed and dog-eared, interior fine. (2) Richard Kriesche, Wirklichkeit gegen Wirklichkeit. Reality - Reality. Graz, Self-published, 1977. Staplebound, 21 x 15 cm, 16 pp. printed white on glossy black. Published on the occasion of Documenta 6. Presents 6 video works from 1974-1977 by the Austrian artist and media theorist Richard Kriesche, in which he addresses the media’s manipulation of reality. Text in German and English. Very good copy. (total 2)