Sunday, February 19, 2012

Kou Vang & Tou Saiko Lee, Generation After Generation, Milwaukee: The Fox Company, 2008

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Kou Vang's photoworks combined with a text by Tou Saiko Lee creates a moving elegy to Hmong identity and history, as well as the...

Eric Carle, A Very Long Tail, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1972

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  A big 'thank you' to my friend Marc Fischer for giving me a copy of this delightful children's book! I'm assumi...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

Robert Rehfeldt, Fliesenwerke Galerie, Boizenburg, Germany (DDR), 1985

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An accordion brochure for an exhibition of the former-DDR, Berlin-based artist, Robert Rehfeldt (1931-1993). Operating outside of Eas...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

A Suite of Accordions, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Five accordions from the Design galleries at the Minneapolis Institute of  Arts. Simple, but elegant brochures for different subsets of t...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

David Park, The David Park Scroll, San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1989

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Another smart book from Bedford Arts published during Stephen Vincent's tenure as series editor - this was the fourth a...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Christo (1935-2020), The Accordion-Fold Book for The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and U.S.A., San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1991

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Front cover photo credit: T. Delaney [ T Delaney Seam Store ] A double-sided accordion of Christo's painted photo...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Roy De Forest, A Journey To The Far Canine Range And the Unexplored Territory Beyond Terrier Pass, San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1988

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This is a really wild and fantastic double-sided accordion illustrated with Roy De Forest's (1930-2007) usual cast of unusual...
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Nikki McClure, Take Care, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2009 [perforated accordion postcards]

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A sharp set of 17 paper-cut images published as postcards in an accordion strip. Nikki McClure is  a self-taught artist who...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

A Child's View From Gaza, perforated accordion postcard strip, MECA, Berkeley, 2011

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A Child's View From Gaza is a traveling exhibit of drawings and paintings created by children in the aftermath of Israel's thr...