Saturday, April 30, 2011

Kara Walker, My Complement, My Enemy My Oppressor, My Love, Feb. 17- May 13, 2007, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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This accordion served as the invitation for an exhibition preview party for the  first full-scale U.S. museum survey of Kara Walker...

Sol LeWitt, Tilted Forms: Wall Drawings, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany, 1987

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This accordion documents a Sol LeWitt mural installation that covered four walls of a gallery in the Westfalischer Kunstverein, in M...

Borja de Pedro, Inner Travel, Barcelona, Spain, 1989

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An I nteresting offset printed bookwork with an intriguing wraparound cover for this continuous watercolor artwork. Borja describes In...

La Jicara, #0, 1992, Taller Lenateros, Chiapas, Mexico [edition of 200]

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It's rare to find an art journal published in an accordion format but this totally unique silk-screened and double-sided pub...
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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 ...