Publisher's Synopsis
Drawing on Sandback's substantial archive, Edward A. Vazquez demonstrates that the artist's work-with all its physical slightness and attentiveness to place, as well as its relationship to minimal and conceptual art of the 1960s-creates a link between viewers and space that is best understood as sculptural even as it almost surpasses physical form. At the same time, the economy of Sandback's site-determined practice draws viewers' focus to their connection to space and others sharing it. As Vazquez shows, Sandback's art aims for nothing less than a total recalibration of the senses, as the spectator is caught on neither one side nor the other of an object or space, but powerfully within it.