Video Green
Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness
Published on 27. August 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-58435-022-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Autonomedia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58435-022-4 (9781584350224)
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Person
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.