Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle was published to accompany a major retrospective at the Guggenheim. The book documents a vast body of visual and editorial material about Barney’s work, allowing readers access to the artistic process and diverse media that resulted in his epic film cycle. Our design deliberately mixes preparatory drawings, visual research, photography, sculptures and film stills to represent the five different Cremaster films in a way that unites the artist’s use of various media. The result helps readers follow the story line of each film in a manner reflecting Barney’s own process of plotting film structure on the wall of his studio. Many of the pages echo the exact compositions that were pinned to the wall of Barney’s studio. The visual, typographic and tactile qualities of a classical encyclopedia provide an elegant interface for a perverse cosmology.