Aspects
Fred Sandback’s Sculpture
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction | Placing the Object
Chapter One | “Notes” on Objects, Environments, and Actualities
Chapter Two | Space Dawning: Artists’ Books and Sculptural Variations
Chapter Three | Seeing Through
Chapter Four | Dissolving the Object
Coda | Beacon’s Shadows
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Chapter One | “Notes” on Objects, Environments, and Actualities
Chapter Two | Space Dawning: Artists’ Books and Sculptural Variations
Chapter Three | Seeing Through
Chapter Four | Dissolving the Object
Coda | Beacon’s Shadows
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Choice
“Vazquez offers a richly nuanced analysis. . . . One of this volume’s real strengths is that it is written from a place of engagement: Vazquez takes on the ever-expanding theoretical terrain of minimalism and postminimalism, but at all times he foregrounds the immediate embodied and situational terms of Sandback’s sculpture. . . .Recommended.”
Alex Potts, author of The Sculptural Imagination
"Aspects: Fred Sandback's Sculpture offers by far the fullest and most illuminating analysis we have of Fred Sandback's spare and subtly experimental work. It gives the reader a new awareness of his sculpture’s fascinating capacity to reconfigure space in suggestive but also intangible ways through the finely calculated placement of a few lines of thread. It also offers important insights into how this almost weightless, linear sculpture differs from drawing as conventionally understood, and as practiced by Sandback himself. Vazquez's very compelling study of the subtleties and complexities of Sandback's work succeeds in situating the artist as one of the leading figures in the radical redefinition of the nature of sculpture that took place in the 1960s and 1970s."
Stephen Melville, coauthor of Writing Art History
"Aspects is a closely observed, phenomenologically oriented account of Sandback's work that also places it in close and carefully considered dialogue with a considerable range of relevant critical and artistic work and that keeps its key terms in continuous, concrete contact with the work being explored. The result is impressive."
Miguel de Baca | Art Journal
"Vazquez’s academically written volume, Aspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculpture, is an erudite examination of an artist almost wholly identified by spare installations of yarn pulled tight between the floor and ceiling, wall to wall, or between wall and floor... Throughout his book, Vazquez supplies the reader with creative close readings of artworks, abundant archival sources, and meaningful theoretical and art-critical texts from across the long twentieth century."
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