The Cremaster Cycle
Matthew Barney
2002
The 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.
Guggenheim
most of them never before published.
Guggenheim
Identifier
L0034Call Number
N6537.B223 A4 2002Extent
xv, 522 pages : illustrations ; softcover 33 cmLanguage
ISBN
0810969351Place of Publication
New York, NYPublication Type
PrintContributor
Neville WakefieldArtist
Matthew BarneyPublisher
Guggenheim MuseumCurator
Nancy SpectorCollection
grunt gallery LibraryCopyright 2002 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, and Matthew Barney.