Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Bob & Roberta Smith, We Spy USA, Purgatory Pie Press: New York, 1998, ed. 100

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Bob & Roberta Smith is an energetic Brit word artist and this is a hilarious accordion in which the shape of each US state is printed ...

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Evolution, Wild Hawthorn Press: Little Sparta, Scotland, 1994

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At 2" wide and 12" tall this tiny accordion packs a big punch and reflects Finlay's interest in the Revolutionary period in ...

Olaf Nicolai, Landschaft: Ansichten nach der Natur, Leipzig, Germany: Jenoptik AG and Edition 931, 1996

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D ocumentation of Nicolai's exhibition "Landschaft/Interieur," at the Galeri Jenotik, Berlin. June/July, 1996.  This perfora...

Erica Van Horn & Simon Cutts, Short-Cuts, Coracle, Tipperary, Ireland, 2008

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Smart visual & concrete letterpress word play by these prolific publishing veterans using different regional words to describe the ...

Peter Pommerer, Gleichversetzt, Stuttgart, Germany: Revolver, 1999, ed. 500

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Two very different sides to this cool accordion, Gleichverstz by Peter Pommerer. 8" (h) x 5' (l)

Tube Maps, London Underground, 2009-2010, UK

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Brit 'walk' artist Robert Long's front cover, 2009. Very smart detournment of underground station names by Barbara Kruger, ...

Joydeb and Moyna Chitrakar, Tsunami, Tara Books, India, 2009

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A Patua scroll created by the West Bengalese artists, Moyna & Joydeb Chitrakar, about the effects of the 20...

Benoit Jacques, Seeds of Images/Graines & Images, France, 1992

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I really know very little about this artist but this delicate accordion/map is a treat. The text in French and English says, "In the ...

Divination book, British Museum

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Panoramic View of the Coronation Procession, Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, London, 28th June, 1838

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A very long accordion recording the Coronation of Queen Victoria on June 28th, 1838.

Codex Zouche-Nuttall, Mixtec, 14th century, British Museum

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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...

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

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