The Cremaster Cycle
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The Cremaster Cycle is a series of five feature-length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books, created by American visual artist and film-maker Matthew Barn
Matthew Barney as the Entered Apprentice in Cremaster 3
The Waste Land
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The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line
The Cremaster Cycle
…released on mass-market DVD in 2003. Reaction to the cycle is sharply divided – some consider it a major work of art, on a par with Un chien andalou and The Waste Land, while others dismiss it as vapid, self-indulgent tedium. This is summarized by one critic as "Barney's cinematic art inspires both awe and revulsion…
Title page of the first book edition (December 1922)
Vivienne Eliot in 1921
The blue plaque near the Nayland Rock shelter in Margate where Eliot wrote some of The Waste Land.
Ezra Pound, a major editor of the work