Sunday, December 19, 2010

Richard Serra, Drawings, Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, WA, 1979

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Accordion catalogue with 10 installation images that document this exhibition of  7 works made with Belgian Paintstick on Belgium linens. ...
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Christo, Wrap In Wrap Out, perforated postcard strip, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, January 18 - March 2, 1969

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For a period of 40 days, Jan van der Marck, the director of the MCA, allowed the museum to be wrapped inside and out by Christo. In his ...

Bernard Lassus, Les Pins, Coracle Press, London, 1983

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An 11 page accordion whose images are made from the bark of the pines in the Forte de la Courbre, on the French Atlantic coast. Presented ...
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...