PUBLISHER
Des Moines Art Center

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 172 pgs / 95 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/1/2008
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 145

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781879003491 TRADE
List Price: $16.95 CAD $20.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
WORLD

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Des Moines
Des Moines Art Center, 05/25/07-08/26/07

Waltham
Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, 09/27/07-12/16/07

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Tom Sachs: Logjam

Edited by Ellen R. Feldman. Text by Jeff Fleming, Raphaela Platow.

Tom Sachs has a cardboard box in his studio into which he throws miscellaneous screws, nuts and bolts after he has attempted, unsuccessfully, to use them in a project under production. Instead of wasting time categorizing and storing them, he throws them into the box until needed again. The box, labeled "Logjam," exemplifies Sachs' working method and his response to the world: he needs to make things; everything else just gets in the way.
Published to accompany the artist's first one-person museum exhibition in the United States, which traveled from Des Moines, Iowa, to Waltham, Massachusetts, in 2007, this handy artist's-book-cum-inventory-cum-exhibition-catalogue documents what may be Sach's most personal show to date--focusing on two bodies of work that are actually about the process of art-making, Sachs' "work" and "living" stations. Readers will enjoy the rounded edges of this small gem, the full-bleed photographs and the blunt, highly personal captions describing the artist's "Essential Tools".