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Product Identifiers

PublisherGuggenheim Museum, Solomon R.

ISBN-100892072849

ISBN-139780892072842

eBay Product ID (ePID)5925224

Product Key Features

Book TitleMatthew Barney : the Cremaster Cycle

Number of Pages528 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicIndividual Artists / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General

Publication Year2003

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorMatthew Barney

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight133.3 Oz

Item Length12.5 in

Item Width9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromCollege Freshman

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal709.2

SynopsisThe definitive user's guide and then some to Matthew Barney's epic five-part epic film series, The Cremaster Cycle is filled with hundreds of Barney's fantastical images and surveys the project, which uses the biological model of sexual difference as its conceptual departure point. Three essays by Barney experts articulate the series' diverse themes and explore the artist's innovative aesthetic vocabulary; interviews with key collaborators, a composer, costume designer, make-up artist, technicians and actors reveal his working process. A trailblazing essay by Curator of Contemporary Art Nancy Spector charts Barney's work from the 1990s to the present and provides critical insights into the aesthetic vocabulary of his five Cremaster films, while Neville Wakefield's "Cremaster Glossary" illuminates the films' most far-flung references with citations from sources as diverse as Freud's psychoanalytic studies, Mormon law and lore, and hardcore music fanzines. In addition to stills from the five films--including the final episode, Cremaster 3 --the book features related sculptures, photographs, drawings and storyboards. For anyone intrigued by the Wagner of contemporary art, this is an atlas to his enticingly hypnotic worlds. Barney himself collaborated on all aspects of this extraordinary publication, including the selection of over 700 images, most of them never before published.

Text byWakefield, Neville