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Molecular Gaze : Art in the Genetic Age
Suzanne Anker, Dorothy Nelkin
Cold Spring Harbor, NY: The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. 2004
The double helix of DNA, the blueprint of life, is one of the world’s most widely recognized graphic icons and an increasingly rich source of imagery and ideas for visual artists. Looking at a wide range of contemporary painting, sculpture, and photography, The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age explores the moral and bioethical questions visual artists are addressing today: What does it mean to be human? What is "identity" in a society of genetically manipulated individuals?
The book treats five distinct themes: the "molecular text" of the body, questions of mutation and the grotesque, boundary blurring between species, assisted reproduction and cloning, and nature as a commodity. With one hundred fifty color illustrations from over sixty artists including Matthew Barney, the Chapman brothers, Tony Cragg, Frida Kahlo, Gerard Lang, Paul McCarthy, Frank Moore, Marc Quinn, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Joel-Peter Witkin, The Molecular Gaze : Art in the Genetic Age is a thought–provoking and visually fascinating book for everyone intrigued by the anxiety and exhilaration of the genetic age.
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Drawing Restraint Vol IV
Matthew Barney
New York, NY: JMc & GHB editions. 2007
This book marks the fourth installment in Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint series.
Volume IV includes surrealistic drawings that correspond to the making of Drawing Restraint 9, the film set on a whaling vessel in the Sea of Japan.
The book also makes available the first published images from Barney's Drawing Restraint 13. The film shows Barney's continuing interest in dramatic encounters involving Westerners coming into contact with Japan. In the film, Barney assumes the role of General MacArthur, and acts out the landing on the beaches of the Philippines and the acceptance of the articles of surrender from Japanese officials on board the USS Missouri, ending the war.
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Matthew Barney : New Work
Matthew Barney, Robert R. Riley
San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 1991
This catalog is from Matthew Barney's first museum show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1991-92. It includes video stills from MILE HIGH Threshold: FLIGHT with the ANAL SADISTIC WARRIOR in which Barney, naked save for an elaborate climbing apparatus, ascends and descends gallery walls and a refrigerated nether space. Scenes and stills from DELAY OF GAME in which Barney, this time dressed as a woman in a white turban, bathing suit, and high heels, pantomimes football-field strategies, are also reproduced here along with photographs of Barney's vaseline covered sculptures. An essay by curator Robert R. Riley introduces this catalog of this first chapter in Barney's now illustrious career.
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Music from Matthew Barney's Cremaster 5
Matthew Barney, Jonathan Bepler
New York, NY: BMG. 1998
Audio CD of music by Bepler for the film Cremaster 5. Damm good stuff.
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Music for Matthew Barney's Cremaster 2
Jonathan Bepler, Matthew Barney
New York, NY: J. Bepler. 1999
Audio CD. Jonathan Bepler wrote the score for Matthew Barney's provocative, experimental film Cremaster 5. Working with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchesta, which is conducted by Gergely Kaposi and features soprano soloist Adrienne Csengery, Bepler has created a haunting, ethereal score that is reminiscent of oratorios. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine -- . Contents: Compression Prelude (5:24); Séance (3:53); the Man in Black (5:17); The Ballad of Gary Gilmore (3:48); Deseret Hymn (7:57); Interlude Saline (7:20); The Executioner's Step (9:54); The Drones' Exposition (4:51); Postlude Retreat (9:45).
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Klutterkammer
John Bock
London and Frankfurt am Main, England and Germany: Institute of Conemporary Arts and Revolver. 2004
Published on the occasion of John Bock's exhibition Klutterkammer at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, this book is a printed take on the anarchic three-dimensional collage the artist created in the galleries of the ICA. "Klutterkammer" translates as an area that is used as a storage or working environment. Both the exhibition and the book bring together a surreal collection of appropriated sculptures, paintings, films and artifacts. The diverse range of artistic and non-artistic disciplines Bock samples produces disordered and often absurd connections. This black and white notebook draws from the roster of:Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Marc Aschenbrenner, Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Blackmail, Anna and Berhard Blume, Boyd, Gunther Brus, Maurizio Cattelan, PunchDrunk, Buckminster Fuller, Gelatin, Bendix Harms, Georg Herold, Douglas Hickox, Mike Kelley, John Maynard Keynes, Martin Kippenberger, Eley Kishimoto, Kurt Kren, Elke Krystufek, Sarah Lucas, George Mallory, Paul McCarthy, John McCracken, Otto Muehl, Jessica Ogden, Manfred Pernice, Ascan Pinckernelle, Sigmar Polke, Chris Pounds, Rasputin, Dr. Jane Rendell, Pipilotti Rist, Raymond Roussel, Christoph Schlingensief, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Robert Falcon Scott, Cindy Sherman, Andreas Slominski, Robert Smith, Paul Thek, Franz Erhard Walther, Robert Cary-Williams, Daniel Zizzo and Heimo Zobernig.
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Grand Street. No. 53
Jean Stein, editor
New York, : Grand Street Press. 1995
includes contributions by Hilton Als and John Waters, Samuel Beckett, John Montague and Barney Rosset, Alexander Cockburn, Walker Evabs, Bob Flanagan, Herondas and James Laughlin, Herve Guibert, Man Ray, Geoff Nicholson, Aura Rosenberg, Haim Steinbach, Andre Alexis, and Colum McCann.
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Lilacmenace. No. 3
Millie Ross, editor
Sydney, Australia: Lilac Menace. 2003
Issue three of Lilac Menace celebrates the obsessions of its contributing artists. Olivia Martin Mcquire photographs men in langud traditionally female postures lifted from the history of Western painting, Kerrie Dee Johns writes on the obsessions of Mathew Barney ("the cult of the self"), Tanya Bruckner's fashion photo shoot features "strange girls worshiping at strange altars," and obsessive drawings and collages from Selena Murray, Caroline Zilinksy, Ainslee Fletcher and Mikie I are just a few of the featured spreads in this zine from Australia.
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Hans Ulrich Obrist : Inverviews, Volume I
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Milan, Italy: Charta; Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery. 2003
Hans-Ulrich interviews everyone, including Marina Abramovic and Gregory Chaitin, Vito Acconci, JG Ballard, Matthew Barney, Dara Birnbaum, Christian and Luc Boltanski, Stefano Boeri, Daniel Buren, Giancarlo de Carlo, Maurizio Cattelan, Johannes Cladders, Constant, Giancarlo de Carlo, Olafur Eliasson, Brian Eno, Esquivell, Yona Friedman, Hans Georg Gadamer, Gilbert & George, Edouard Glissant, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Joseph Grigely, Zaha Hadid, Stuart Hall, Thomas Hirschhorn. Carsten Höller, Walter Hopps, Roni Horn, Yong Ping Huang, Pontus Hulten, Pierre Huygue, Arata Isozaki, Billy Klüver, Rem Koolhaas, Bul Lee, Sarat Maharaj and Francisco Varela, Ernest Mancoba, Roberto Matta, Cildo Meireles, Jonas Mekas, Mario Merz, Santu Mofokeng, Yoko Ono, Gabriel Orozco, Frei Otto, Lygia Pape, Claude Parent, Philippe Parreno, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ilya Prigogine, Jacques Ranciere, Gerhard Richter, Pipilotti Rist, Israel Rosenfield, Jean Rouch, Anri Sala, Katzuyo Sejima, Ettore Sottsass, Luc Steels, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Agnès Varda, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Cerith Wyn Evans, Anton Zeilinger
It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans-Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If "peripatetic" is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The Swiss-born, everywhere-based curator and head of the Programme Migrateurs at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris has an unstoppable wanderlust and a related symptom: his penchant for interviewing anyone and everyone who piques his curiosity, be they artist, scientist, writer, curator, composer, architect, thinker, etc. Since 1993, Obrist has conducted more than 300 interviews, 75 of which are collected here in a selection that respects the cultural and professional diversity of the interviewees. Each interview is introduced by a short text outlining the biography of the interviewee and giving some contextual information on the recording of the interview.
A mega-book for a mega-curator.
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Jasper Who?
[Zingmagazine Books #6]
Kenny Schachter
New York, NY: Zingmagazine. 2004
"In an effort to prove how alienated and esoteric the art world has become, I always say, when I talk to university students, that if you interviewed 100 people on the street, and asked them if they were familiar with Matthew Barney, less than 1% would recognize the name. So I decided to test my theory and I conducted the interviews myself. Guess what? I found out I was exactly right." Armed with about twenty five questions about the relevance of art and artists to the man and woman on the street, artist and writer Kenny Schachter walked through Harlem, Midtown, SoHo and Wall Street to conducting interviews. The transcripts are reproduced here along with photographs of each participant.
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