Status
Checked out
Publication
New York, NY : Semiotext(e), c2004.
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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LibraryThing member jbushnell
A curious book, collecting essays which straddle the line between art review and memoir of alienation (book club question: is Kraus' BDSM practice a cure or a symptom?). The institutional critique is sharp, the observations on LA are witty / bleak, and the overall grimness is leavened by Kraus'
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obvious yearning for meaningful human interconnection (and art that can express it). Bracing, enticing. Show Less
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Physical description
217 p.; 23 cm
ISBN
9781584350224