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.
Choice Aspects: Fred Sandback's Sculpture ... Read moreoffers 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.
Alex Potts, author of The Sculptural Imagination 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.
Stephen Melville, coauthor of Writing Art History Show Less