Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Video Green : Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, Chris Kraus



Title: Video Green : Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness 

Author: Chris Kraus 

ISBN: 978-1-58435-022-4

Binding: Paper  

Publisher: SEMIOTEXT(E)

Number of Pages:  220

Price: $14.95

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.

About the Author

Chris Kraus is a filmmaker and the author of I Love Dick and Aliens & Anorexia, and coeditor of Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader. Index called her "one of the most subversive voices in American fiction." Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability and dazzling speed

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