Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Paola Bragado, The Mexicanas, Cuadernos de la Kursala no. 81, Kursala and Hydra/Inframundo, Cadiz and Mexico City, 2021

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A visually rich and complex accordion that accompanied Bragado's exhibition/ installation of the same name at La Kursala, an exhibition ...
Monday, April 4, 2022

Angela Flowers, Post Card Show, January, 11 - 30th, London, 1971

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As far as I know this catalogue is for one of the first artists' postcards exhibitions, with Canada's Image Bank following up with t...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Eric J. García,  Chicano Codices #1: Simplified Histories: The U.S. Invasion of Mexico 1846-1848, offset lithograph, Salsedo Press, Chicago, 2015

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A succinct visual representation of the Mexican American War from an activist artists' Chicano perspective who states that he "... ...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Kit Martin, The Church Hymnary: Revised Edition, Dundee, Scotland, 2022

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I'd never seen a cyanotype accordion until my friend John Shimon sent me one the other month (see on this blog). His piece sent me looki...
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Jonathan Monk, Meeting #13, Book Works & Yvon Lambert, UK & France, 2000, ed., 10,000

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the envelope the work came in A smart accordion by this Brit neo-conceptualist artist based in Berlin. The publishers blurb for this work st...

Goshuin-cho, pilgrimage stamp book, Japan, nd

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          Here's a type of accordion book that I'd never come across before. These Japanese accordion books are specifically for col...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Mirel Fraga, Bosque Tropical (Tropical Forest), Polvoh Press, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2022, 2nd edition

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This is a beautiful and wonderfully vibrant screenprinted accordion from this artist based in Oaxaca, Mexico. Fraga has worked as a designer...

Alfred Mason Amadon, M.D., The Fold-Out Atlas of the Human Body, Bonanza Books, New York, reprint 1984/1906.

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In my recent researches into all things accordion and folded, I stumbled across the genre of anatomical flap books, also known as fold-out b...