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Title: Cremaster 5 by Matthew Barney, Barbara Gladstone, Peter Strietmann, Michal James O'Brien ISBN: 1-881616-87-8 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: How can he not blow your mind?
Comment: Matthew Barney has the bizarre ability to disturb you and move you to joyful tears. His work is AMAZING, original, thought-provoking, and surreal. If you saw his work at the Guggenheim, you surely were impressed with his creativity, whether you think it's "art" or not, and must have felt you were inside some epic dream world the whole time. Incredible. His images speak for themselves...so does the book. 5 stars....i'd give 6 if i could.

Rating: 1
Summary: out with corporate trash
Comment: Matthew Barney is a disappointment to the art world. I, as an artist in ny, am ashamed to see that it takes so little to amuse the simple mind. His work is not about violence of creation, change, and revolution, but about corporate cheap tricks to bring in the herd of cash cows willing to submit to what a museum calls art for the sake of selling tickets to a side show
In his amateur attempt to create he has plagiarized the work of Fellini's satyricon. His use of the Guggenheim reflects these cheap tricks by the way he uses the spiral ramp with the vaseline flowing down it. An extremely arbitrary move, and a move that many amateurs make frequently when they don't know how to take an idea and transform it into a form.
Ideas are a dime a dozen, but if the end results or form is as cheap as mattew barney's work is then the idea was not translated well. Simple garbage is the only way one can explain his work. I am glad to see there are many puppets out there and less masters.

Rating: 5
Summary: The book itself, like his installations are a work of art.
Comment: Matthew Barney's new installment of his Cremaster series is available in book form. The movie, Cremaster5 will be shown in NY in mid October. If you don't get to see it the book hints at what it is all about. Barney's multi faceted works that not only incorporates sculpture, video, photography, and cinema are the most poignant and revolutionary art being created today. Of course many will disagree feircely and feel quite the contrary. The mythology that Barney creates can at times be disturbing, still the provocative brilliant artist is changing the concept of art today. Cremaster5 brings us a little closer to this work, that complex, ambigous, and revealing man-created myth.