Matthew Barney: River of Fundament
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (873 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847842584 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 422 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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a retelling that visually incorporates themes of love and regeneration This book, truly, is a for fans of this staggering film. I viewed the film in Hobart, Tasmania, after reading about it for months. It is a sort of re-imagining for Mailer's Ancient Evenings; a retelling that visually incorporates themes of love and regeneration, the loss of the manufacturing industry, relationships to our forbears and what we leave behind. Go read. "River of Gold" according to lightbearer, fallen. This is a fantastic book. Worth the wait and its weight. I won't be reading the essays and synopses (of which there are many) until I finish Ancient Evenings (halfway there. Highly recommended if there is doubt) and then amendments shall be made. A wonderful testament of that which was and is and is to come (soon I hope). A delight in every way. That's all you get. "A great book for Matthew Barney fans." according to Art. Great photos of the exhibit and nice essays about the movie and exhibit. I read this before I went to the exhibit, and am glad I did.
Homi K. . Bhabha is the director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Hilton Als is a staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker. Okwui Enwezor is the director of Haus der Kunst, Munich
About the Author Okwui Enwezor is the director of Haus der Kunst, Munich. . Bhabha is the director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Homi K. Hilton Als is a staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker
Bhabha and critic Hilton Als, as well as facsimiles of the playbills produced for the related live performances.. On the occasion of a major exhibition, performance, and film premiere, this book considers Matthew Barney's epic seven-year project, an odyssey of death and its mythologies. In a sequence of unique live performances, a series of massive sculptures, and, finally, a marathon-length opera in cinematic form, made with the artist's longtime collaborator, the composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney has elaborated a richly perverse and complex universe in which mythology, iconography, narrative, sex, and death are inextricably entwined.Organized according to the narrative structure of the film, the book features sculptures (made from elemental materials such as iron, sulfur, bronze, lead, salt, and copper), drawings, film and live performance stills, storyboards, and original scores by Bepler. The book also includes contributions by literary theorist Homi K. This long-awaited volume documents the full breadth of this ambitious new project, the first m