Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents)

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. Video Green Examines The Explosion Of Late 1990s Art Produced By High-profile Graduate Programs That Catapulted Los Angeles Into The Epicenter Of The International Art World. Probing The Programs' Own Art-critical Buzzwords, Chris Kraus Asks How La Art Came To Be So Completely Divorced From The City's Other Realities. Radicalized Beyond Belief, Video Green Does For Contemporary Art What Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces Did For The 20th Century, Mapping The Persistence Of Peripheral Culture.--book Jacket. Art Collection -- Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (1998) -- Pay Attention (1999) -- Posthumous Lives (1999) -- Pussy Orphanage (1999) -- Deep Chaos (1999) -- Emotional Technologies (2000) -- Surface Streets (2000) -- Bad Nostalgia (2000) -- The Blessed (2000) -- Military Culture (2000) -- Shit On My Sleepmask (2001) -- Cast Away (2001) -- Dropoff (2001) -- Panda Porn (2001) -- Picturing The Period (2001) -- Calle Art (2001) -- Featured (2001) -- Torpor Los Angeles : Daniel Marlos (2002) -- Sentimental Bitch (2002) -- Whole : Julie Becker (2002) -- How To Shoot A Crime (2003) -- Falling Into The Whole : Julie Becker (2002). Chris Kraus.