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Sweet Oblivion
Martin Wong
Marcia Tucker
Dan Cameron
Illinois State University. University Galleries
其他書名
The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong
出版
New Museum of Contemporary Art
, 1998
主題
Architecture / Landscape
Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Art / History / General
Art / Individual Artists / General
Art / Individual Artists / Monographs
Art / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes
ISBN
0847821021
9780847821020
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MZjqAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The visionary paintings of Martin Wong, one of the unsung geniuses of New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, are collected here and examined in depth for the first time. Entirely self-taught, Wong creates intricate compositions that combine gritty social documents, cosmic witticisms, and highly charged symbolic languages-customized manual alphabets for the deaf, street graffiti, Nuyorican poetry, hand-lettered signs, meticulously rendered brick facades, rearrangements of Zodiac signs-sometimes within a single painting.
The urban landscape of Loisaida, the Hispanic section of the Lower East Side where Wong lives, is the source of his imagery. Whatever the theme-the survival of a neighborhood besieged by drugs and crime, homoerotic fantasies of men in uniform, the multiplicity of meaning in language, the kitsch and ornamentation of Chinatown USA-Wong's work is visually startling and movingly autobiographical.
This mid-career survey of Wong's work accompanies an exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the University Galleries, University of Illinois, in Normal, which has been organized by Dan Cameron and Bary Blinderman. Their insightful essays and those contributed by Lydia Yee, Yasmin Ramirez, and Carlo McCormick connect Wong's oeuvre with popular culture, cultural heritage, and the history of painting.