Fred Sandback: Being in a Place

by Friedemann Malsch, Thierry Davila, Fred Sandback

As a student at Yale, Fred Sandback struggled with sculpture until George Sugarmann told him "if you are so sick of the parts, why not just make a line with a ball of string and be done with it." For the rest of his career, Sandback used taut and resonant strings to sculpt space and light. Ephemeral and site-specific, his Minimalist sculptures, familiar to visitors to Dia: Beacon among other museums, use colorful acrylic yarn strung between the ceiling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 377571720X
• ISBN13: 9783775717205
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 2.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.7" x 10.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher