Tom Sachs: Space Program

Sachs, Tom; Et Al

ISBN 10: 0847832260 / ISBN 13: 9780847832262

Published by Rizzoli, 2008

About this Item

For over a decade, Sachs has pondered the technical ingenuity and romance with the unknown that brought America the Apollo program. This publication documents the culmination of his research: the realization of his own life-size Space Program, comprised of three main sculptural elements (Lunar Module, Mission Control, and Space Suit) and a Flight Plan, all put to use during a live demonstration of a lunar landing. In his exuberant manufacture of objects and scenarios, Sachs asks barbed questions of modern creativity that relate to conception, production, consumption, and circulation. Space Program features 797 full-color and 30 black-and-white images; a conversation among Buzz Aldrin, Tom Sachs, and Louise Neri; a critical essay by Arthur C. Danto, contextualizing this work among the artistâ s contemporaries; and a comprehensive discussion of the work by Mark Van de Walle. These are accompanied by appendices that provide a full visual and descriptive account of the innumerable components that make up Sachsâ s work and illustrate the artistâ s related drawings and source materials.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tom Sachs: Space Program
• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847832260
• ISBN 13: 9780847832262
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

For over a decade, Sachs has pondered the technical ingenuity and romance with the unknown that brought America the Apollo program. This publication documents the culmination of his research: the realization of his own life-size Space Program, comprised of three main sculptural elements (Lunar Module, Mission Control, and Space Suit) and a Flight Plan, all put to use during a live demonstration of a lunar landing. In his exuberant manufacture of objects and scenarios, Sachs asks barbed questions of modern creativity that relate to conception, production, consumption, and circulation. Space Program features 797 full-color and 30 black-and-white images; a conversation among Buzz Aldrin, Tom Sachs, and Louise Neri; a critical essay by Arthur C. Danto, contextualizing this work among the artist’s contemporaries; and a comprehensive discussion of the work by Mark Van de Walle. These are accompanied by appendices that provide a full visual and descriptive account of the innumerable components that make up Sachs’s work and illustrate the artist’s related drawings and source materials.

About the Author

Tom Sachs’ work has been included in many exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, and has been collected by several museums including the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Pompidou, and the San Francisco MOMA, among others.