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Martin Wong

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Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
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A rich and engaging facsimile of the artist’s first visual poetry book, self-published in 1968

Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 68 pgs / 8 bw. | 2/13/2024 | In stock
$20.00



Martin Wong: Das Puke Book
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Lighthearted yet vivid scenes of psychedelia compiled in an affordable chapbook facsimile

Pbk, 3 x 4.5 in. / 16 pgs. | 2/13/2024 | Out of stock
$10.00



Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

The definitive monograph on the irreverent transcultural painter of queerness and urban life

Pbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 352 pgs / 320 color / 20 bw. | 4/11/2023 | Not available
$60.00



Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and LeavesMartin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves

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The paintings of Chinese American artist Martin Wong (1946–99) are celebrated for their affecting fusion of social realism, visual language, queerness and racial identity.
Footprints, Poems, and Leaves is a facsimile of his first poetry book, self-published in 1968. The volume collates dozens of poems written by Wong between 1966 and 1968, a tumultuous period in his life spent at the epicenter of the hippie movement in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Handwritten in what would become his signature calligraphic style, Wong’s poems presage the haunting sensibility of his later visual works. The thematic content of the poems ranges from surrealist descriptions of the urban subculture that surrounded him to downtrodden yet tender biographical entries. This new edition possesses a double cover showcasing intricate drawings of skeletal angels and other tableaux, as well as a folded, looseleaf broadsheet containing two poems and a drawing of a bony leaf.



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Martin Wong: Das Puke BookMartin Wong: Das Puke Book

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This unforgettably named compact chapbook was first published by painter Martin Wong (1946–99) in 1977. Written in the early 1970s, the publication contains 13 chapters of handwritten micro-fictions filled with cringeworthy stories unfolding in San Francisco and beyond. The publication is populated with a cadre of colorful characters, some of whom are obscure underground figures such as George “Hibiscus” Harris from the Cockettes and Angels of Light, and others who are well known, such as Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and God. Written during his days working on the flyers and theatrical backdrops for the Angels of Light Free Theater and published just before his move to New York, these stories capture Wong’s playfulness and the absurdist, kaleidoscopic milieu of the moment in which they were written. Many of these stories appeared before the book’s publication in Wong’s now-iconic calligraphic scrolls.



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Paperback, 3 x 4.5 in. / 16 pgs.

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Catalog: SPRING 2024 p. 80   

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ISBN 9798988573616 TRADE
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Martin Wong: Malicious MischiefMartin Wong: Malicious Mischief

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Krist Gruijthuijsen, Agustín Pérez Rubio. Text by Marci Kwon, Sofie Krogh Christensen, Agustín Pérez Rubio, David J. Getsy, Julie Ault, Heinz Peter Knes, Danh Vo.

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 situates Wong’s exhilarating painterly explorations within his era and his complex cultural position, reproducing an abundance of paintings from across his career.



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Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 352 pgs / 320 color / 20 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2023 p. 101   

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