200 Books

by Keith A. Smith

First edition. Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies. An annotated bibliography of all of the books made by Smith, which range from artist books to poetry and textbooks to dictionaries. Most of his 150 one of a kind books are in his own collection. He has published over two dozen small edition artist books and book-length poems, and has compiled ten small dictionaries. The 200 books are represented by over 500 illustrations. Indexed.

Genres: Art

336 pages, Hardcover

First published May 20, 2000

Reviews

[Margaret · Rating 2 out of 5]

At first, I LOVED this book as a rare view into the artist behind artist's books, but then it got sort of tedious. It took me forever to finish, and even then I did out of loyalty more than real interest. To be fair, it is a catalog of work, but I think the occasional flashes of brilliance showed support for more juicy narrative. Perhaps Mr. Smith also tired of this project, and hey if it was because he looked forward to making more new work rather than looking back, I forgive him.

[Anthony · Rating 4 out of 5]

anecdotal bibliography of over three decades of obsessive bookmaking, forming an interesting kind of autobiography, as well as an index of all the successes and failures of 200 experiments with the book format