A book dedicated to the "billions of hens sacrificed each year for our consumption," Blinky is the quintessential conceptual artwork of the 1970s. Blinky is the seriocomic brainchild of artist Jeffrey Vallance, who has taken the concept and processes of documentation to their most absurd conclusion. The "Blinky" of the title is a frozen chicken that Vallance bought at a supermarket, then eulogized and buried at a Los Angeles pet cemetery—complete with open-casket viewing and granite marker. Vallance’s straightforward narrative and simple black-and-white photos offer a striking commentary on our society, our treatment of animals, and death.

Blinky: The Friendly Hen

Arts & Photography

Vallance, Jeffrey

History & Criticism

Smart Art Pr

BüK Set I is a boxed set that includes BüKs #1-6, including "The Mall in Peril" by Christopher Knight, "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift, "My Life With Dick" by Jeffrey Vallance, "Ice" by Lynn David, "Xingu" by Edith Wharton, and "The ABCs from Grossman's Glossary of Every Humorous Word in the English Language" by Richard Grossman.

Bukcase I

Literature & Fiction

Knight, Christopher

SWIFT, JONATHAN

Grossman, Dick

WHARTON,EDITH

Literary

Bukamerica Inc

In the summer of 2007 Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California presented an installation constructed in the form of a treasure chamber featuring reliquaries from the life of sardonic artist Jeffrey Vallance. This catalog features more than 300 full color images from the exhibition, and also includes essays by Jeffrey Vallance.

Jeffrey Vallance: Relics and Reliquaries

Individual Artists

Grand Central Press

Collecting published and unpublished essays, articles and fragments ranging from 1990 to 2022, A Voyage to Extremes offers an illustrated survey of the seemingly limitless breadth of Jeffrey Vallance’s esoteric writings. For fans of ghosts and other paranormal phenomena; Richard Nixon’s dog Checkers; (fabulous) Vegas casinos; the pedagogical value of Lapland; Charlie Manson’s father; (the glory of) Ronald McDonald; Martin Luther; Blinky (the friendly hen); Thomas Kinkade; dream sequences; Jägermeister; a raunchy affair (at an ice hotel); hot tubs; shamans; Dürer; Biblical etymology; base gratification; enlightened asides; a wedding ceremony; his Majesty, King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV of Tonga; the summoned ghosts of Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Frida Kahlo; the living specter of David Byrne; Liberace (in space); Big Foot (in Texas); Arctic glamour; Judas; St. Luke; a reliable recipe for a rump roast; ravens; crows; clowns; the Ozone layer; demilitarised zones; duty free zones; the weeping virgin of Las Vegas; a bar called a fale kava; a restaurant called Matsuhisa; Houdini artifacts; Santa Claus; Charles Fort; Mikhail Gorbachev (carved out of Ice Cream); Mike Kelley; artificial insemination (cow), and more.

A Voyage to Extremes: Selected Spiritual Writings

Tenement Press

Is Las Vegas, the capital of the Western entertainment complex, also set to become the capital of art? A large number of artists live there or visit often, Venice was partially reconstructed there, and the Bellagio resort and casino house an art collection that includes El Grecos and Picassos promoted as if they were Frank Sinatra or the Beach Boys. At this historic moment, art is losing the visionary power to which it used to lay claim and is instead drawing closer to the forms of the entertainment industry, from lifestyle and game shows to Hollywood cinema and music videos. In a paradoxical turn of events, the society of the spectacle has become a reality and Las Vegas is becoming the capital of the future culture industry. Dave Hickey and art historian Libby Lumpkin moved to Las Vegas in the early 90s. For Hickey, the Strip has served as a platform for his critique of the elitist and purist structure of values within the art world. In 1992, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour published Learning from Las Vegas, providing a seminal and radical reevaluation of the vernacular architecture of what was then one of America's most culturally neglected cities.

Magic Hour, The: The Convergence of Art and Las Vegas

Reed, David

Hickey, Dave

DUCHAMP, MARCEL

Pettibon, Raymond

Batchelor, David

Shaw, Jim

Carson, Karen

LIberace

Isermann, Jim

Acres, Reverend Ethan

Lumpkin, Libby

Argent, Philip

Bavington, Tim

Callister, Jane

Chen, E.

Hilton, Jane

Otto-Knapp, Silke

Reynolds, Victoria

Hatje Cantz Publishers

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