Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle Summary and Reviews

Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle
by Neville Wakefield, Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle
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Author: Matthew Barney, Neville Wakefield
Editor: Nancy Spector
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-07
ISBN: 0892072849
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum

Book Reviews of Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle

Book Review: An Important Work
Summary: 5 Stars

I travelled from San Diego to New York to see all five of the films in sequence, and picked up this book while there. The Cremaster cycle is pregnant with ambiguous meaning (the point of art, nowadays) so this book is, in my opinion, the only way to gain a comprehensive perspective on the work. Other useful features of this book is an illustrated essay of Barney's work, a "Cremaster Glossary"(less useful) and an essay on the meaning of Cremaster. I won't discuss the substance of that essay, but it is useful, if only to orient yourself to the imagery.
Perhaps because I got to see all five films in sequence and then had an opportunity to review the book afterwards, I don't think Cremaster is all that difficult to understand. Part of the problem is that he is engaged in fomenting ambiguity. I do believe that is possible to extract signifgant meanings from the Cremaster cycle. Might be a good idea to buy this in paperback if you actually want to paw through it with your dirty mitts.

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