accordion publications

everything about accordion publications, with a special interest in artists' accordions. stephen perkins [perkins100@gmail.com]

Friday, April 29, 2011

William Burroughs, NOVA Broadcast 5: The Dead Star, editor/publisher Jan Herman, 1969

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Six double-sided pages stapled inside the cover comprise this broadside with cut-up texts, stories, & images of mobsters and...

Carl Andre, Three Works on Land, Artists Representing Environmental Arts (A.R.E.A.), New York, 1979

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Nine unperforated postcards documenting 3 different outdoor works by Carl Andre that were installed on the grounds of two psychiatric c...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Warja Lavatar, Le Souverain et son Bouffon: Ballade 3, Les Amis de Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1988

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Warja Lavater (1913-2007) was a Swiss illustrator and designer who adopted the accordion format for all her artists' books. A neg...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

George Maciunas, Expanded Arts Diagram, nd

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George Maciunas, Fluxus' obsessive impresario was constantly drawing up plans for different projects, one diagram was a map that showe...
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R. Clarke-Davis, A Grand Day Out, circa 2008

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Eighteen black & white photographs make up this urbanesque derive with final photo of female companion.  3" (H) 4' 2" (...

Sir John Soane's Museum, The Leporello Card, London, nd

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An accordion that attempts to reconstruct the incredible interior of Sir John Soane's home-based museum in London.  8" H: 24...
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James Jean, Rift, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2010

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A beautifully printed two-sided accordion by this award-winning illustrator. The color side incorporates two distinct stories interspersed...

Sam Durant, 7 Signs; removed, cropped, enlarged and illuminated (plus index), Matrix 147, exhibition brochure, Berkeley Art Museum, 2002

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Accordion gallery or e xhibition catalogue ? One side reproduces 7 of Durant's works, and the reverse has exhibition checklist and es...

Christian Marclay, Sampling, SF Museum of Modern Art, 2002, exhibition card

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An exhibition brochure with checklist, and brief essay about the four-channel video projection, "Video Quartet," that had been ...

In the Spirit of Fluxus, Walker Art Center, 1993, exhibition card

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Publicity for "In The Spirit of Fluxus," a large exhibition of Fluxus works at the Walker Art Center, Feb-June, 1993.  The text ...

Erica Van Horn, Italian Lesson No. 13: Identificazione, Coracle Press, England, 1994

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This double accordion publication opens up to form two hands, each of the 10 pages have original finger & thumb prints and undern...
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...
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