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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0001184
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Work Title (display):
Cremaster 4
Image Title:
detai: opening scene
Work Dates (display):
1995
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2007-12-05
Work Creator (display):
Matthew Barney (American, born 1967)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American sculptor and video artist. Barney's early experiences of sport and modelling informed his subsequent work as an artist, in which he developed an obtuse personal mythology and a body of work often hieroglyphic in meaning. While still a student at Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 1988, Barney began working on the Drawing Restraint Series, in which he turned mark-making into a test of physical endurance. He made his New York debut in 1991 with the performance MILEHIGH Threshold: Flight with the ANAL SADISTIC WARRIOR, in which he appeared as a free climber within the gallery space. The performance was unwitnessed but documented on video and shown in the gallery space for the duration of the exhibition. Although such performances can be related to the body art of figures such as Chris Burden, Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci, Barney's athletic performances have an undercurrent of undifferentiated eroticism that suggests a connection between sexuality and physical endurance. Barney's concern with the spectacle of performance found ambitious expression in the Cremaster films, conceived as a five-part cycle and incompletely filmed thoughout the 1990s: Cremaster 4 (1994), Cremaster 1 (1995), Cremaster 5 (1997) and Cremaster 2 (1999). The films are characterized by their high production values, exuberant locations, macabre dramaturgy and bizarre structure. The disturbing and fantastical scenarios that Barney plays out relate predominantly to gender and the reproductive system, constructing a highly cryptic social/sexual mythology. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2008-02-06)
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Worktype:
video art
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video art
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Work Category (VRC classification):
video
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video
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false
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Art in America, October, 1996 (unconfirmed)
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Art in America, October, 1996 (unconfirmed)
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false
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Matthew Barney
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
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