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Title: Matthew Barney: Cremaster 3 by Matthew Barney ISBN: 0-89207-253-9 Publisher: Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Art as eruption
Comment: I find the responses to Barney's productions amusing because I am aware they represent personal identifications, in spite of the cries of mysogyny, with a typical white masculine ideology rather than critical responses. And that is one of the important aspects of the Cremaster Cycle: a visceral response: a cremaster-kick, if you will. It erupts in your face. Out of Barney, all over you. It is twisted but blunt.
Many reviews--just browse the Amazon universe--represent the world in dialectical oppositions. Out here we have mostly the following: good Barney/bad Barney; sexist Barney/not-sexist Barney; trash Barney/intellectual Barney. Whatever! We wish it were so simple. No learning possiblein a world where an authoritative voice is deferred to when assigning a positive or negative value to an event or idea or individual. A work of art isn't "bad" because it presents sexist, mysogynistic, repulsive, scrumptious, beautiful, ugly, erotic, pornographic, cannibalistic, testicular, white, racist, nationalistic images/symbols/myths all-together and at once both as aesthetic and poetic--as form and content. We must ask: Who is the art for? What is it supposed to do? Why choose the specific genre? At what is it directed?
Maybe we can begin accepting that we need art that refuses simple consumption because work that refuses simple consumption refuses to fortify the dominant and oppressive ideological structures in society. So, Barney's public masturbation is a positive act. Particularly funny are the reviewers who discuss the art space of the Gugg in NY more than Barney's work documented in that space.
That said: I find the Cremaster Cycle pleasing, troubling, and extremely boring at different times. I think it is beautiful. And I find it technically wonderful. Anyways... Better to wallow in complexity than to knee-jerk my way towards over-generalization.
But, see it for yourself and then discuss your cremaster response publicly. That's the point. Cremaster 3 (and 1 & 2) is being screened around the country right now; some places are showing the entire cycle. Art should intervene and disrupt. And if it cannot irrupt the public sphere, it should erupt all over it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Huh?
Comment: As visually beautiful as the movie was it was boring, lack luster and so filled with boring symbolism that it isn't possible to follow without a companion guide. This book isn't that guide. It's a more expensive version than the movie was to see in the theatre but a lot less painful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Cremaster Cycle 3 in a handy book form
Comment: If you are a Barney fan, this is a must-have companion to the huge Cremaster Cycle "Bible" being sold at the showings and on Amazon. This is basically a book of stills from the film, in the order they occur. Relive such exciting moments as Matthew Barney getting his teeth smashed in at the racetrack! Aimee Mullins walking on creepy Perspex prosthetic legs! and Mathew Barney in the dentist's chair having rectal surgery! He might be a genius, he might be a nut, but he's a damn fine artist, sculptor and filmmaker.
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Title:Order - From Cremaster 3 ASIN: B0000A1HPL Publisher: Lions Gate Home Ente Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $21.49 |
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Title: Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle by Nancy Spector, Neville Wakefield ISBN: 0810969351 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Matthew Barney: Cremaster Cycles by Matthew Barney, Nancy Spector, Neville Wakefield, Nancy Spector, Neville Wakefield, Guggenheim Museum ISBN: 089207258X Publisher: Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: After Modern Art, 1945-2000 (Oxford History of Art) by David Hopkins ISBN: 019284234X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Vitamin P by Barry Schwabsky ISBN: 071484246X Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 23 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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