Sunday, September 23, 2012

Stephen Perkins, I AM..., C-print, 2011

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This accordion takes as its inspiration the "I AM  A Man" placards carried by striking African-American sanitation workers ...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

Yves Tanguy, Untitled, 1928, Art Institute of Chicago

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Accordion publications share many similarities with folding screens and this one by Tanguy (1900-1955) can be found in the permanent coll...

Ugo Gattoni, Bicycle, London: Nobrow Ltd., 2012

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Another wonderful accordion from the London-based Nobrow press. This drawing, that utilizes the panoramic features of this format, depict...
Monday, September 3, 2012

Alice Tchakedjian, E.C.G. Report, June 12, 2012

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My wife recently had to go to Cairo, Egypt to help her mother after she'd had major surgery and upon her return she handed me ...

Deborah Stein, Goat Nurse for the Royal Tot, 1992

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A spontaneous and fresh accordion by this former Iowa City artist who found her metier in New York making a cool range of jewelry under t...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Ian Hamilton Finlay, 3 Posts for a stream (1996) and 3 Homeric Heroes (1998), Wild Hawthorn Press, Stonypath, Little Sparta, Dunsyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland

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3 Posts for a stream (1996) front cover 3 Posts for a stream (1996) fully extended 13" x 3.25" 3 Homeric Heroes (199...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Evening (1999) and BP (1997), Wild Hawthorn Press: Stonypath, Little Sparta, Dunsyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland

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Two tiny accordions by this important Scottish artist (1925-2006) who published a large amount of printed matter throug...
Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Mark Wagner, Fortune's Daughter: An Allegory of Prosperity, 2005

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A really sharp work that's an offset lithograph presented in an accordion/map fold format of the orig...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Daniel Spoerri, An Anecdoted Topography of Chance (Topographie Anécdotée du Hasard), London: Atlas Press, 1962/1995

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This accordion slipped into the back of the latest iteration of this iconic artists' book hardly meets the definition on...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 Metros de Poemas, Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Press, 2010

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Published as part of Ugly Duckling Press' "Lost Literature Series," this poem was originally published...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

John Sibbick, Flesh and Bone, London: Nobrow Ltd., 2011

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Another cool double-sided publication from London's Nobrow press' series of accor...