{"title":"Matthew Barney","description":"\u003cp\u003eMatthew Barney is among the most ambitious and image-saturated artists of his generation. Working across sculpture, film, performance, and installation, his practice constructs closed symbolic systems in which biology, mythology, architecture, and ritual are made to operate as a single field. The Cremaster Cycle — five films produced between 1994 and 2002 — remains one of the most discussed and visually distinctive multimedia projects of the period, generating a body of printed matter, catalogues, and ephemera that circulated independently of the work itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications collected here document the reception and distribution of that practice: exhibition catalogues, survey texts, and printed objects through which Barney's image-world passed into bookstores, libraries, and private hands.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"barney-matthew-supercontemporary-electa-2007","title":"Matthew Barney — Supercontemporary, Electa, Milan, 2007","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished as part of the \u003cem\u003eSupercontemporary\u003c\/em\u003e series edited by Francesco Bonami, this compact volume introduces the work of Matthew Barney through a concise survey of his practice from the early \u003cem\u003eDrawing Restraint\u003c\/em\u003e works through the \u003cem\u003eCremaster Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e and later film-based projects. The book reproduces production photographs, installation views, and key images that helped establish Barney as one of the defining figures of contemporary art in the 1990s and early 2000s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew artists of the period generated an image-world as self-contained as Barney's. Athletic ritual, biological transformation, mythology, architecture, and cinema collapse into a single symbolic system. By the time this publication appeared, the \u003cem\u003eCremaster Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e had already become one of the most ambitious and discussed multimedia projects of its generation, positioning Barney between experimental film, sculpture, performance, and contemporary mythology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small-format survey published during the height of Barney's international visibility. Less a catalogue raisonné than a portable introduction to a practice that expanded the scale and ambition of contemporary art at the turn of the millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA publication designed for circulation rather than permanence. Image, biography, bibliography, and reproduction compressed into a portable format. The larger works remain elsewhere; what survives here is their printed support. A record of how an artist's practice was translated into a form capable of passing through bookstores, museum shops, libraries, collections, and private hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover exhibition publication\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Colour throughout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Approx. 21 × 17 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Electa, Milan, 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by:\u003c\/strong\u003e Francesco Bonami\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eText by:\u003c\/strong\u003e Massimiliano Gioni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light shelf wear, surface rubbing, softened corners, and minor handling marks to covers. Internally clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. Dispatched flat and securely packed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614967652690,"sku":"BARNEY-ELECTA-CAT-2007","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Barney_-Matthew.-Supercontemporary-1-cover_574aed61-6864-40e3-9d8b-30471109e73a.jpg?v=1780292483"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/matthew-barney.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}