Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness

by Chris Kraus

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781584350224
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	08/27/2004
Series:	Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,154,998
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.65(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick and Summer of Hate; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Idiosyncratic, scattered and compelling, Kraus's take on L.A. and its art is decidedly and wonderfully nonstandard." Publishers Weekly (online)

Semiotext(e)

"Kraus predictably... plunges into [Los Angeles's] 'not-thereness' headfirst and takes the reader with her down every rabbit hole." Masha Gutkin San Francisco Bay Guardian

Semiotext(e)

"Like all the great chroniclers of Los Angeles, Chris Kraus observes the city's emptiness, possibility and hallucination of meaning. But Kraus is Joan Didion cubed, writing herself into the narrative of the city." Tamar Brott Los Angeles Magazine

Semiotext(e)

Editorial Reviews

Idiosyncratic, scattered and compelling, Kraus's take on L.A. and its art is decidedly and wonderfully nonstandard.—Publishers Weekly—

Kraus predictably... plunges into [Los Angeles's] 'not-thereness' headfirst and takes the reader with her down every rabbit hole.

—Masha Gutkin , San Francisco Bay Guardian—

Like all the great chroniclers of Los Angeles, Chris Kraus observes the city's emptiness, possibility and hallucination of meaning. But Kraus is Joan Didion cubed, writing herself into the narrative of the city.

—Tamar Brott, Los Angeles Magazine—

From the Publisher

Like all the great chroniclers of Los Angeles, Chris Kraus observes the city's emptiness, possibility and hallucination of meaning. But Kraus is Joan Didion cubed, writing herself into the narrative of the city.

—Tamar Brott, Los Angeles Magazine

Reviews

Like all the great chroniclers of Los Angeles, Chris Kraus observes the city's emptiness, possibility and hallucination of meaning. But Kraus is Joan Didion cubed, writing herself into the narrative of the city.

Los Angeles Magazine - Tamar Brott

Kraus predictably... plunges into [Los Angeles's] 'not-thereness' headfirst and takes the reader with her down every rabbit hole.

San Francisco Bay Guardian - Masha Gutkin