RELICS AND RELIQUARIES - JEFFREY VALLANCE
I'm really please to have got hold of copies of this magnificent book...
produced for the 2007 Relics & Reliquaries exhibition at Crand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California, this book
covers over 40 years of Vallances work.
176 pgs, Clothbound Hardback with Dustjacket, 29 x 23 cm, 2008.
BLINKY - JEFFREY VALLANCE
In April 1978, Californian Artist Jeffrey Vallance went to the local Ralph's
supermarket, bought a
frozen chicken which he named Blinky and then drove
to the Los Angeles Pet Cemetary where he had
Blinky buried and a
grave marker erected. This book is a reprint of the 1979 edition which documented
this unique performance/prank,
Beautifully produced with embossed cover and endpapers showing the
bloodstained ' shround of Blinky' This expanded edition of Blinky
is accompanied
with a DVD of a 15 minute video made in 1988, showing the exhumation, autopsy and reinterment of Blinky!
2008 (3rd Edition), 14 x21cm, 30 pgs, Embossed colour cover.
MY LIFE WITH DICK - JEFFREY VALLANCE
'A sidesplitting chronicle of the inescapable influence of America's 37th President, Richard M
Nixon,on one of the art world's liveliest mavericks, Jeffrey Vallance.' Growing up in California
in the 1960's, Vallance became, seemingly inevitably, mildy obsessed by Richard Nixon. In 1990
after his offer to donate some of his artwork to the official Richard Nixon Library was met
with a cool reception, Vallance created his own
Richard Nixon Museum exhibition. This pocket-sized book contains a mixture of Nixonian ephemera, artwork
and
anecdotes in Jeffrey Vallance's unique
style - blurring history and mythology
Paperback, USA, 2005, 18 x 13cm, 32 pgs.
FRONT DOOR BOOK - CLAYTON PATTERSON
Artist and activist CLAYTON PATTERSON has lived in New York's Lower East Side for
30 years, tirelessly documenting his
neighbourhood in photographs and video.
The front door photos were a long term collective portrait of
his neighbourhood, each week, he took hundreds of photos of local residents in
front of his grafitti encrusted front door.
This large format, full colour book reproduces
300 front door photos of families, workers, bowery bums, little kids
and local tough
guys, spanning a period during
which the Lower East Side has been massively
gentrified and many of the
predominantly hispanic residents have been displaced forever.
The photos are accompanied by Clayton's extensive
reminiscences of 30 years as a socially
engaged L.E.S. resident, his 1980s career as a designer of
unique baseball caps, curator of tattoo and
outlaw/outsider art exhibitions plus interviews with
local characters like grafitti artist LA2,
Keith Haring's mentor/collaborator now largely unrecognised and
uncredited.
CLAYTON PATTERSON'S FRONT DOOR BOOK is a
rare gem of a book,
crammed with a
wealth of information and seldom heard voices.
READ MORE... 2009, paperback, 9 x 12 inches, 160 pages, 100 pages of photos
+ 56 pages of text.
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May 2013
