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Video Greenexamines 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 Greenis to the Los Angeles art world what Roland Barthes' Mythologieswere to the society of the spectacle: the live autopsy of a ghost city.Kraus, Chris is the author of 'Video Green Los Angeles and the Triumph of Nothingness', published 2004 under ISBN 9781584350224 and ISBN 1584350229.
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