Video Green
  • Published: 27 August 2004
  • ISBN: 9781584350224
  • Imprint: MIT Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $36.00

Video Green

Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness

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Video Green examines the explosion of late 1990s Los Angeles art driven by high-profile graduate programs.

Video Green examines the explosion of late 1990s Los Angeles art driven by high-profile graduate programs. Probing the surface of art-critical buzzwords, Chris Kraus brilliantly chronicles how the City of Angels has suddenly become the epicenter of the international art world and a microcosm of the larger culture. Why is Los Angeles so completely divorced from other realities of the city? Shrewd, analytic and witty, Video Green is to the Los Angeles art world what Roland Barthes' Mythologies were to the society of the spectacle: the live autopsy of a ghost city.
  • Published: 27 August 2004
  • ISBN: 9781584350224
  • Imprint: MIT Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $36.00
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Chris Kraus

Chris Kraus is a writer and critic. Her novels include Aliens & Anorexia, I Love Dick, Torpor, and Summer of Hate. I Love Dick was adapted for television and her literary biography After Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) and Penguin Press. Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability, and dazzling speed and has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

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