Sunday, November 4, 2012

Bea Nettles, Seasonal Turns: Four Accordion Books, 1998

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An intriguing boxed set of 4 accordions that reference the seasons. Each double-sided accordio...

Nicolas Lampert, Seeing Green: Art Ecology and Activism in MIlwaukee, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, 2008

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Catalogue for an art show curated by Nicolas Lampert and exhibited at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee in April, 2008. In...

Lewis Koch, 8 Wisconsin Images, 1977

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Koch created this postcard accordion under the auspices of the Wisconsin Arts Board who hired him and eight other artists to work on ...
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...