Thursday, March 22, 2012

Jungyeon Roh, Today is Sushi Day, screenprint, New York, 2008

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I have only just discovered the work of this wonderful New York-based Korean artist and illustrator. Roh was awarded the Crea...

Richard Klein (German, 1890-1967). King Ludwig III of Bavaria ("Bayernthaler") with color illustrations of Bavaria in the First World War and Presentation Box, 1916. Silvered bronze, chromolithographs, and carboard

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   This rather interesting commemorative accordion is made up of individual miniature prints linked together by a ribbon of backing ma...
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Friday, March 16, 2012

A.S. Guthrie, Broken Records: 1960-1969, Hong Kong, ed. 500, 2007

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A quirky, humorous and smart publication that comes as a double-sided boxed accordion with reproductions of all the ...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Ian Hamilton Finlay and Gary Hincks, 3 Banners, Wild Hawthorn Press, Scotland, 1991

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Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was a Scottish concrete and visual poet, artist, sculptor, landscape artist, and irrepressible...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

Chelsea Ryoko Wong (Zine). Around the World, San Francisco, 2011, ed. 40

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This delightful double-sided accordion (leporello) zine contemplates the big and small questions as it traverses the world ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Chelsea Ryoko Wong, Her Eyes Glowed Pink, screenprint, edition of 8, 2009

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A smart accordion by this versatile visual artist with a BFA in printmaking from the California College of Art, Oakland. Size: 8" x 2...
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...