Friday, December 17, 2010

Sandwich, #4, Jean Kristau, Le Dernier Cri, Marseilles, France, 1997.

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One in a series of two-sided limited edition screenprinted accordions by guest artists. Simple and elegant format from the Le Dernier Cri...

Dogan Surek, The Cup We All Race 4, Germany, 1997

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A quietly philosophical 12 page accordion exploring ambition and time. Surek is a very prolific book artist and many of his works are avai...

American Indians, photo-strip, Berkeley, California, nd

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Souvenir photo strip of Native Americans with all the typical ethnically stereotyped imagery from the 1940s and 1950s. 

Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese, Line Up, Pureproductionsusa, 2005

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Accordion with perforated mugshot postcards of the Bush cabal with statements by them on the reverse. "With the passage of the Patri...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Berwyn Hung, A Simple Guide to Life, Book? Press, 1996

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Smart, sharp, minimal and almost profound.  Berwyn Hung is a prolific Atlanta book maker.  
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Judex, Untitled, Le Dernier Cri: Marseille, France, 2007-08

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A fantastic artists' book that combines three accordions with  intersecting  narratives (+ CD). Another great product from the Le Der...

Leif Goldberg, two postcard accordions, silkscreen prints, 2007-2008

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National Waste Postal Cards, 2007. Two sets of perforated silkscreened postcards by this cool and quirky artist from Rhode Island.  Watch ...
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Private Stash: A Pin-Up Girl Portfolio by 20 Cartoonists, Buenaventura Press: Oakland, 2006.

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Book with slipcase and cover The cover art for this book is by Rick Altergott and it includes portraits of all the  20 artists...

Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to Border Patrol, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Enrique Chagoya & Felicia Rice, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2002

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A wonderfully powerful publication that self-consciously embraces the format, and visual style of the pre-Hispani...
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...