Wong, Martin - Malicious Mischief exhibition catalog

Krist Gruijthuijsen, Agustín Pérez Rubio (Editors). Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief. Walther König, 2023.  Softcover. 352 Pages.  Sealed in original publishers shrink-wrap. Near fine, but for light corner wear. Text by Marci Kwon, Sofie Krogh Christensen, Agustín Pérez Rubio, David J. Getsy, Julie Ault, Heinz Peter Knes, Danh Vo. The definitive monograph on the irreverent transcultural painter of queerness and urban life.Straddling East and West Coast postwar art cultures from the late 1960s until his death, Martin Wong (1946–99) painted narratives of queer existence, marginal communities and gentrification in a visual vocabulary that merged Chinese iconography, urban poetry, graffiti and sign language. Wong took a thrillingly irreverent stance on sexual and political topics that were rarely given recognition within the art discourses of the time.The most substantial volume on the artist yet published, and the result of exhaustive research, Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief situate