Cremaster I
Work of art
By: Matthew Barney
Date: 1996
Source: Barney, Matthew. Cremaster I. 1996. Available online at http://www.guggenheim.org/barney/cremaster_1/; website home page: http://www.guggenheim.org (accessed July 5, 2003).
About the Artist: Matthew Barney (1967–) was born in San Francisco, California. He spent his youth in Idaho and New York City, where his mother introduced him to art. He began studying medicine at Yale, but eventually concentrated in visual arts.
Introduction
Matthew Barney's Cremaster I is the first video in a five-part series, The Cremaster Cycle, produced and released from 1994 to 2002. The Cremaster Cycle presented highly nontraditional video, mixing various artistic media to portray a parallel mythological...
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