BARNEY MATTHEW Cremaster Volumes 1 5

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

BARNEY, MATTHEW.
Cremaster. Volumes 1-5.
Together, 5 books. With lavish color illustrations documenting Barney's film cycle-cum-opera. Small oblong 8vos, photo-pictorial stiff wrappers; volume 2 issued in a blue translucent plastic slipcase; volume 4, minor chips along edges, original printed bellyband, closure secured by cellophane tape; volume 5, rubbed along far edge of wrappers, printed translucent vinyl overlay, vertical crease, slightly discolored along edges. first edition, volume 5 signed by barney.
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Each volume was printed by Hatje Cantz Publishers in association with the presenting institutions and was not published sequentially.

Cremaster 4, in conjunction with the Fondation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporaine, London, Artangel, Paris and Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York was the first volume published in 1995 Cremaster 1 (Kunsthalle Wien, Austria and the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, 1997) Cremaster 5 (Portikus, Frankfurt and Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, 1997) Cremaster 2 (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1999) Cremaster 3 (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2002).

Cremasteric reflex is a muscle that raises and lowers the scrotum in order to regulate temperature in the testis.