Cremaster 1

by Matthew Barney

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Film by Matthew Barney. Includes credits for the film. Designed by Matthew Barney, Tony Morgan and Lalena Fisher. 100 pp., plus 6 two-page gatefolds, with 76 four-color plates and 13 black-and-white plates finely printed by Graphische Kunstanstalt Otto Sares GmbH. 9-3/8 x 11-1/2 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien and Museum für Gegenwartskunst der Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung and the Öffentlichen Kunstsammlung, Basel.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Matthew Barney is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the Cremaster Cycle, a series of five feature-length films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema."