This new publication marks the first comprehensive survey of a seminal body of work that helped make Fred Sandback (1943-2003) into an internationally celebrated artist. This catalog takes its lead from a 1987 presentation of Sandback's work at Westf lischer Kunstverein in M nster, also called Vertical Constructions. With a mixture of archival imagery of the sculptures in situ in M nster, new photography of these works installed at David Zwirner in 2016 and an expanded selection of sculpture, this publication is both a historical document and a source for the renewed attention to this body of work. Scholarship by Yve-Alain Bois revisits the power of Sandback's immateriality in the context of the vertical constructions while Lisa Le Feuvre, a longtime scholar of sculpture, offers a more historical treatment of the show in relation to the artist's writings and other works from the 1980s.