David Howards Video Tape Archive, Contemporary Artists.

Lot: 203

Seventeen years of research, circa 1983 - 2000. The first episode New York East Village Art Scene, premiered in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in 1985. Approximately 541 original unedited and edited original master tapes of Keith Haring, Christo, Nam June Paik, Arman, Ed Moses, Lowell Nesbitt, Isamu Noguchi, Jacki Windsor, Kenny Scharf, Charles Arnoldi, Roy Deforest, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Mark Kostabi, Robert Heinecken, Tony Oursler, Chris Burden, Deborah Remington and many other artists, as well as President Bill Clinton with 16 other heads of state at the Manila Philippines A.P.E.C. Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference. This archive also includes the related paper files, slide transparencies, edit logs, every original unedited tape and every original edited master tape that were used to create more than 120 Art Seen Art World television programs and an original catalogue of 64 tapes and D.V.Ds listed for sale. Some are compilation survey documentaries masters and unedited original tapes of New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco artists. Televised internationally, and domestically, in more than 17 major American metropolitan cities, on P.B.S, presented at the Smithsonian, Hirshhorn Museum and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Shot on location in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco art galleries and artist studios most of the artists are depicted making, while talking about, their art. The entire archive approximately 541 tapes, includes 1 inch, 3/4 inch, Beta Cam and V.H.S. unedited tapes and approximately 120 are edited masters: All are, one of a kind, original tapes. Also featured is an original licensed C.N.N. tape of Christos Japanese and California Umbrella Project.
These are not proprietary and just represent the original videos of the collection.

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