Barney Matthew Text Nancy Spector (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New in publisher's shrink wrap. Folio. xv (i), 522 (8)pp. Original illustrated silver cloth with gray and silver lettering on spine, in acetate dustjacket with green and gray lettering. Lime green endpapers. Six color frontispieces. "Matthew Barney's five-part Cremaster cycle is a self-enclosed aesthetic system. Born out of a performance practice in which the human body - with its psychic drives and physical thresholds - symbolizes the potential of sheer creative force, the cycle explodes this body into the particles of a contemporary creation myth. Since its inception in 1994, the Cremaster cycle has unfolded in time as well as space to render visible some of the processes by which form - in its biological, psychological and geological states - comes to be. Barney's visual language is protean: drawing and film unite to engender photography and sculpture, which, in turn, produce more drawing and film, in an incestuous intermingling of materials that defies any hierarchy of artistic mediums." (Spector). Published on the occasion of the exhibition Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle, exhibited in Cologne, Paris and New York. Profusely illustrated with color photographs and drawings in five parts. Contains list of works in Cremaster Cycle, selected exhibition and screening history at rear. Extraordinary publishing event and exhibition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition / First printing. First issue without the notice of the Hugo Boss sponsorship on the copyright page; later printings printed this sponsorship notice. Silvery pale gray cloth. xv, 522 pages. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. Please note: This is not available for international orders. The definitive work on Barney's acclaimed cycle of films.