Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Lawrence Weiner, Art Wall, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, 2017

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  A fun accordion that accompanies one of Lawrence Weiner's singular text pieces, accompanied with a smart essay by S.F. State...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Golden Cosmos (Daniel Dolz and Doris Freigofas), Locomotion, London: Nobrow, 2016

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Another smartly designed book in the Nobrow leporello series with this publication put together by the Berlin-based couple and illustrati...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Sanna Mander (illustrator), History of Women's Fashion, Somerville, Big Picture Press, 2015

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This is a fun oversize children's book with great illustrations of "...more than one hundred women's outfits, accessories, a...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Jen Tong, Bloom, screenprint, 2016 [ed. 125]

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This beautiful accordion is made up of two double-sided silkscreen prints that are joined in the middle of one of the pair. The combinat...

Erika Rier, 1987 Illustrated, 2014

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A cute little accordion that illustrates a series of important memories from 1987 when Erika Rier was 10 years old, and indeed there wer...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Julie Doucet, Kirk and Spot & Charming Periods, photocopy, c. 1988

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In 1988 I was in communication with Julie Doucet, who even in this early period was obviously a very talented artist. Doucet would later ...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Michael Bartalos, 29 Degrees North, San Francisco: San Francisco Center for the Book, 2012, 2nd trade edition, ed. 200

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A curious little 8-page accordion that illustrates a poem that references a degree of latitude shared by all the six eastward journey...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

Beatrice Coron, Prayers for the Unfaithful, New York, 1997 [open edition]

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A humorous and smart publication that serves as "a talisman for the non superstitious. Just hang it and you will be protected effe...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Alcatraz and Beyond, San Francisco: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, 2014.

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A nifty little publication printed on thick boards that gives the book a certain heft. One side juxtaposes photographs of assorted inmate...