Published by Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in  2002, 528 pages, 32×23,5 cm
First edition, softcover, text in English

Condition: Very good ++ (light scuffs on the cover / back cover, a dent on spine, pages are perfect)

The mammoth illustrated photobook conceived as part of Barney’s epic five part filmic immersion The Cremaster cycle (1994 – 2002)
Guggenheim Museum curator Nancy Spector has described the Cremaster Cycle as “a self-enclosed aesthetic system.” The cycle includes the films as well as photographs, drawings, sculptures, and installations the artist produced in conjunction with each episode. Its conceptual departure point is the male cremaster muscle, the primary function of which is to raise and lower the testicles in response to temperature. The project is filled with anatomical allusions to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic process of sexual differentiation.
Matthew Barney’s masterpiece book