Sunday, May 1, 2011

Chuck Close, Keith/Six Drawings, Lapp Princess Press in association with Printed Matter, New York, 1979

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Chuck Close's accordion presents six portraits of the same sitter with each gridded image created by using different mark making u...
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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