Jason Reed and Barry Stone, Boom and Bust, Shapco, Minneapolis, 2025

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This artist' statement below sums up well this interesting work about this unique Texan petro-landscape:

"Boom and Bust depicts a 40-mile stretch of highway between Midland and Odessa, Texas. This roadway serves as the backbone of the extraction industry in the Permian Basin, the most productive oil field in the world. Inspired by Ed Ruscha, we made hundreds of photographs from the back of a pickup truck of the unrelenting scroll of man-camps, pumpjacks, and oil outfitters collectively known as the 'Petroplex.'"

Accompanied by two essays (Marcia Bjornerud and Rebecca Bengal) that explore both the geology of this area and the place of the American highway within the culture of the USA with Bengal concluding her piece with:

"The truest picture of Permian time is a single continuous photograph, an ancient and unknown story, one that travels backward and forward, folds in on itself, and opens up again."

128 single-sided pages, individually 8.5" x 5.5" and when unfolded 58ft 8inches.

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Andrew Mockett, A Chapbook of English Tat, 2006

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This beautiful publication is a 25% sized handcolored facsimile of the original screenprinted 2002 edition. The "tat" in the title is Brit slang for something cheap, or of bad quality or simply tacky. The "Chapbook" in the title references the sources of the imagery in this publication as coming from what were known as Chapbooks, which were small run and cheap publications for the masses utilizing woodcuts and illustrated with popular subject matter such as "...almanacs, children's literature, folklore, ballads, nursery rhymes, pamphlets, poetry and political and religious tracts". [wikipedia] Chabooks had their heyday from the 16th century to the 18th century when they were gradually replaced by newspapers. 

If you look carefully at the individual pages you will notice that the reader was encouraged to cut out the image and fold the bottom strip in order to make the image stand upright ready for placement on the mantelpiece over the fireplace!

Mockett is a British artist, designer, teacher and illustrator with a particular interest in Pop imagery and design, and his works have been collected by institutions such as the Tate Modern, the V&A and the Yale Centre for British Art. 

13 single-sided pages, individually 4" X 4.75", and when unfolded 4ft 4".

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Dóra Maurer, Objectified Outline, Kodoji Press, Vintage Galeria/Archivorum, Baden, Switzerland, 2024

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Dóra Maurer died a little over a month ago on February 14, 2026. Born in Hungary in 1937, she became a visual artist who was "...widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in postwar Hungarian conceptual and abstract art." [Dóra Maurer obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 March 2026]

The eight silver/chalk self-portrait prints reproduced in this accordion were created/performed in 1981 and depict her naked with crudely drawn black lines across her midriff and chest. These lines also emphasize the 'lines' of her body with particular attention to her breasts which, it seems to me, have the effect of de-eroticizing her body and thus actively negating the process of 'objectification'. Either way a simple but also complex piece that embodies both a political and cultural moment from some 45 years ago.

8 single-sided pages, individually 4.5" x 3", and when unfolded 2ft.

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David Horvitz, Call To A Crow/Appelle Un Corbeau, Edition Taube, Munich, 2024, ed. 1000

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Created in the form of a post-fluxus instruction piece with an English version on one side and the other in French. Each stanza in this long vertical poem begins with a Yoko Ono-like instruction to "imagine...".

A quick search of the meaning of "call to a crow" reveals a surprisingly complex form of communication between these birds:

Crow sounds, or vocalizations, are a complex communication system used for danger alerts (mobbing calls), food location, territory defense, and social bonding, with over 20 distinct calls including caws, rattles, and clicks. Specific patterns like short caws or rapid clicking indicate different messages, such as calling to mates, signaling alarm, or begging for food, and are often accompanied by body language

I'm posting below the description of this work from Edition Taube's website:

"A collection of short poems in a pocket-sized leporello book.

David Horvitz's poems gently invite readers to connect deeply with nature, drawing inspiration from the majestic Alpine landscape.

Phrases such as ‘Imagine the voice of someone who is no longer alive’ or ‘Call to a crow until a crow calls back to you’ invite readers to engage in a contemplative experience that bridges the natural and the poetic.

The collection of poems in English and French was originally written for the Biennale Son in Sion, Switzerland. The book is designed by Valaisan artist Romain lannone and published in collaboration with Biennale Son and Kapa Books.

David Horvitz is an American artist whose work is categorised as ‘post-fluxus’ and conceptual art. It includes artist books, installation, performance art and mail art. Edition Taube has already published other books by David Horvitz, including ‘Rain’, ‘Nostalgia’ and ‘How to Shoplift Books’, which has been translated into more than 35 languages."

36 double-sided pages, individually 3" x 4.25", and when unfolded 6' 4.5".

  

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Christian Hasucha, once & today: A 3-D view over the Berlin Wall, Inter-Edition, Berlin, 2007

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While this work is not an accordion proper it has enough of an accordion's characteristics to find a place in this blog. Perhaps the most notable aspect of this work is the central fold which conceals two small mirrors that when viewed correctly creates a 3-D image of the wall that divided Germany for 28 years between August 13, 1961 until its fall in November 9, 1989.

Hasucha who was born and raised in the the former West-Berlin and discovered some old negatives he had taken of the view across the wall while he was experimenting with stereoscopic imagery in 1984. This publication completes that inquiry 32 years later overlaid with the troubled history of this ideological division.

The artist also provides some details about his particular street (Heidelberger Strasse) and the number of victims who perished trying to cross it — 125 verified cases and some 81 still to be researched.

For more info about this artist and his work see: Christian-Hasucha@t-online.de

5 double-sided pages, individually 9.75" x 7" and when unfolded 3' 4.5"

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Figure Bound, A Most Exquisite Corpse, Figure Bound, New York, 2025, ed. 700

The accordion format is ideally suited for experimenting with the 1925 surrealist exquisite corpse format. This vertical corpse consists of pencil and ink contributions from 30 artists with both sides depicting a discombobulated human body from head to toe. A sense of humor coupled with the varied drawings gives this accordion a fun and spontaneous visual and esthetic appeal.

Figure Bound is Samuel Alexander Forest, and for more info: www.figurebound.com

15 double-sided pages, individually 13" x 5", and when opened up 6' 3".

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R. Clarke-Davis, a book of wander: plains to prairies, kiddy viddy press, 2025

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Another photographic report from this flâneur of the everyday with this work consisting of a 4-page double-sided spread surveying different landscapes from plains to prairies.

However, this accordion is different from the many others I've reviewed of Clarke-Davis as this one folds out into four double-sided strips of photographs - see below. A quick search of this blog will reveal many other of Clarke-Davis' accordions and the different formats he's experimented with.

Four individual double-sided pages 2.5" x 4" and 16" in length, and when the whole sheet is opened up it's 11" x 17". 

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