Monday, December 13, 2010

3 pages from the Codex Tepetloaoztoc, Colonial, AD 1555-56, British Museum

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Pre-Spanish codices were made from one long accordion folded strip of amatl paper. "The Codex is a colonial legal document...

Art of the Fold: Accordion Publications, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, September, 2009.

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An exhibition of accordion publications that I curated for the Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.  It was as a result ...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Micah Lidberg, Rise and Fall, Nobrow: London, 2010

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An awesomely beautiful two-sided accordion by Micah Lidberg, screenprinted onto untreated paper that gives the work a rich color and lus...

Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale (Spatial Concept), 1966, Edizioni del Cavallino: Venice and Sergio Tosi Stampatore: Milan, fabricator, Sergio Tosi Stampatore, Milan, edition: 200

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Lucio (The Slasher) Fontana, applies his distinctive cut technique by punching holes through the gold paper pages of this artists' bo...

Derek Sullivan, Persistent Huts, Printed Matter: New York, 2008

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There is a genre of artists' books that mimic and parody the style of Edward Ruscha's seminal accordion publication,  Every B...

Robert Indiana, Decade, Multiples Inc.: New York, 1971

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A brochure announcing the availability of a set of ten serigraphs by Robert Indiana.  Reproduced in greatly reduced scale, the accordi...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Buzz Spector, Unpacking my Library, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 1995

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This smart record of Buzz Spector's exhibition,  Unpacking My Library: An Installation by Buzz Spector,  (1995) at the San Diego St...

Jun Kaneko, announcement card, Omaha, 2007

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Announcing the presentation of work created by Jun Kaneko at the Mission Clay Products in Pittsburg, Kansas between 2004 and 2007, on Nov...

Nikki de Saint Phalle, My Love, Malmo: Sweden, 1971

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Limo Zine, Sweden, 2010

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Limo Zine is published in Stockholm, Sweden by Joakim Ojannen.  At 5.5" inches high and 8 feet long its a real visual treat, wi...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Heda Kovaly on accordions

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"I carry the past inside me like an accordion, like a book of picture  postcards that people bring home as souvenirs from foreign ...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Helen Douglas & Telfer Stokes, Clinkscale, Weproductions: Yarrow, Scotland, 1977

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The front and back covers are photographs of an accordion with the hands of the player, and the 'bellows' is made from a lon...