Books by Kenneth Goldsmith and Complete Book Reviews

Kenneth Goldsmith, Author . Granary Books $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-887123-53-2
Goldsmith, schooled as a sculptor, here continues his project of exposing language as a phenomenally excessive material extension of consciousness, culture and commerce. Language stands in the same relation to his work as, say, landscape does to the
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Kenneth Goldsmith, Author . The Figures $20 (840p) ISBN 978-1-930589-20-9
Over the last 10 years, Goldsmith has gone further in exploring language-as-found-object that any other artist or writer, creating often impossibly long, but very simply conceived books that turn out to be very beautiful. For two years, he "colle
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Kenneth Goldsmith, Author . MakeNow $14 (120p) ISBN 978-0-9743554-2-9
Conceptual artist, University of Pennsylvania instructor and WFMU radio host, Goldsmith has earned a great deal of attention for previous projects, among them Fidget (a real-time record of every motion he made in one day) and No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96
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Kenneth Goldsmith, Author . Make Now $16.50 (0p) ISBN 978-0-9743554-8-1
Well, we could spend an hour talking about the Hudson River right now,” begins the third entry in the 144 sections of Goldsmith’s outrageous appropriation of New York area radio traffic updates (from WINS), but the anonymous narrator...
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Kenneth Goldsmith, Author Coach House $16.95 (107p) ISBN 978-1-55245-076-5
Readers familiar with poet and visual artist Goldsmith's No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96, perhaps the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry, wondered what he might possibly do for an encore. The answer came on June 16, 1997--Bloom
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Kenneth Goldsmith. PowerHouse, $19.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-57687-636-7
By transcribing and collaging radio and television coverage of seven watershed events in recent American history, Goldsmith (Uncreative Writing) repackages the media's language as it grapples with tragedy. Out of its original context, the reporting...
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Kenneth Goldsmith. Harper Perennial, $14.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-241647-6
After describing one of his typical browsing sessions on the Web involving news articles, video clips from a Keith Richards interview, and a 1917 photo posted on Facebook of a full-size battleship being built in New York’s Union Square, Goldsmith (Un
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