Fred Sandback: 10 Isometric Drawings
Facsimile edition, first published by Lapp Princess Press, New York, 1977. Reprinted 2003. Copublished with the Fred Sandback Archive in 2014
24 pages, 10 images, softcover, 6 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches
ISBN-13: 978-0-9853377-6-6
First published in 1977 in a uniform series of artist’s books by Lapp Princess Press, this publication diagrams a series of Fred Sandback’s linear sculptures in the simplest terms. Art historian Edward Vazquez has described the drawings as “adamantly abstract—beginning with figures that outline L- and U-shapes, and then vertical lines, all rendered in white on a black ground, coursed through with the even thinner white lines of an isometric grid, a reversal owed to their status as reproduced Photostats of drawings on isometric paper. These drawings make no reference to architecture, and the space implied by the grid ends in a white border to each image.”
