Smith

This comprehensive new monograph on the influential British artist-filmmaker John Smith renowned for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world contains essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer and Ethan de Seife. Herbert s text provides an incisive overview of Smith s work over the past four decades, while Christie examines the artist s oeuvre within the context of English eccentricity. Meyer s essay discusses his film The Black Tower in relation to absence and abstraction and de Seife looks at cinematic scale through the prism of Smith s Gargantuan. The publication includes a complete, fully illustrated filmography, with images and synopses from nearly 50 film and video works created between 1972 and 2012, also making it an important document of British conceptual filmmaking.