Pages: unpaged Size: 211mm Edition: One of 500 copies
Place publication: Rochester, NY Publisher: Visual Studies Workshop Press Book No. 112
Additional notes: Colophon: Overcast was imaged on an Apple Macintosh computer with Thunderscan for photo-digital detail. Each document was printed out by an Apple Imagewriter for negative making. Book 112 was the printed offset by Tom Sullivan at the Visual Studies Workshop Press, Joan Lyons, coordinator. 500 copies on Mohawk Vellum 70lb. Text and 65lb. Cover. Smythe sewn.
Extract from Catalogue 234. Jonathan A. Hill, 2021. Art Books, Artists’ Books Book Arts and Bookworks.
81. Smith, Keith A. overcast/outcast, Book 112
An uncommon collection of visual poems by the American book artist Keith A. Smith (b. 1938); this is an early photo-digital book, created using thunderscan. Printed offset in an edition of 500 copies on mohawk Vellum 70 lb. There was also a leather-bound edition of 25 copies. The present example is signed by the artist on the title-page.
“In overcast/outcast Smith takes [it] a step farther. While [Book 115] is almost entirely graphic — a flat pattern on the page — outcast develops dimensionality with its verbal materials. The thematic concerns of the book — homosexual identity in contemporary culture — is well served by the sleight-of-hand complexities of representation and dissimulation.”–J. Drucker, the Century of Artists’ Books (2004 ed.), p. 248.