MATTHEW BARNEY: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT

Enwezor, Okwui; Neri, Louis [editor]

ISBN 10: 0847842584 / ISBN 13: 9780847842582

Published by Skira Rizzoli, New York, 2014

About this Item

Quarto, 311 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in brown cloth with black lettering on yellow wrap-around band. Minor shelf wear. Light staining to top edge of textblock. Interior pages clean. Features fold-out poster, loose within. Shelved in Case 11. 1374938. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1374938

Bibliographic Details

Title: MATTHEW BARNEY: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT

Publisher: Skira Rizzoli, New York

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

On the occasion of a major exhibition, performance, and film premiere, this book considers Matthew Barney's epic seven-year project, an odyssey of death and its mythologies. This long-awaited volume documents the full breadth of this ambitious new project, the first major series by the artist since the legendary Cremaster cycle. River of Fundament is directly inspired by Norman Mailer's Egyptian novel Ancient Evenings, his infamous classic that chronicled the passage of a narrator through the stations of death and reincarnation. In a sequence of unique live performances, a series of massive sculptures, and, finally, a marathon-length opera in cinematic form, made with the artist's longtime collaborator, the composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney has elaborated a richly perverse and complex universe in which mythology, iconography, narrative, sex, and death are inextricably entwined.

Organized according to the narrative structure of the film, the book features sculptures (made from elemental materials such as iron, sulfur, bronze, lead, salt, and copper), drawings, film and live performance stills, storyboards, and original scores by Bepler. A comprehensive essay on the exhibition and film project by Okwui Enwezor provides an overview of the entire project. The book also includes contributions by literary theorist Homi K. Bhabha and critic Hilton Als, as well as facsimiles of the playbills produced for the related live performances.

About the Author:

Okwui Enwezor is the director of Haus der Kunst, Munich. Homi K. Bhabha is the director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Hilton Als is a staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker.