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Matthew Barney

River of Fundament

Matthew Barney( )
Author: Enwezor, Okwui
Contribution by: Bhabha, Homi K.
Als, Hilton
Diederichsen, Diedrich
Walsh, David
ISBN:978-0-8478-4258-2
Publication Date:Sep 2014
Publisher:Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Imprint:Skira
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $95.00
Book Description:

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. This long-awaited volume documents the full breadth of this ambitious new project, the first major series by the artist since the legendary Cremaster cycle. River of Fundament is directly inspired by Norman Mailer's Egyptian novel Ancient Evenings, his infamous classic that chronicled the...
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Book Details
Pages:422
Detailed Subjects: Art / American / General
Art / Sculpture & Installation
Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):9.5 x 11.8 x 1.46 Inches
Book Weight:4.07 Pounds
Author Biography
Enwezor, Okwui (Author)
Hilton Als is an American writer and theater critic born in New York City, New York in 1960. He began contributing pieces to The New Yorker magazine in 1989 and later worked as a staff writer and theater critic. He worked as a staff writer for The Village Voice, an Editor-at-large at Vibe and wrote articles for The Nation. He collaborated on film scripts for "Swoon" and "Looking for Langston." He edited the exhibition catalog for The Whitney Museum of American Art, "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art," His first book, The Women, was published in 1996. His awards included, the New York Association of Black Journalists first prize in both Magazine Critique/Review and Magazine Arts and Entertainment. He was awarded a Guggenheim for Creative Writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002-03. He won the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in nonfiction for White Girls (2013) and The Women (1996). The 2016 Lambda literary awards presented him The Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature

He has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College.

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