"Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes chronicles the blossoming of Asian American art and anticipates the growing democratization of American art and culture. Pairing work by twenty-four contemporary Asian American visual artists with responses provocatively drawn from cultural critics, other artists, activists, and intellectuals, this book explores themes of geographical movement, the sexuality of Asian bodies, colonization, miscegenation, hybrid fo ..."
"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, meticulous ..."
"Martin Wong: Human Instamatic explores the paintings of Martin Wong, a collection that fuses the kitsch and decorative with a gritty realism. Martin Wong was a painter whose vision is among the lasting legacies of New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s and a precursor of the identity-driven work of the 1990s. Known as the "human instamatic" for his rapid portrait painting skills, which he offered for $7.50 a painting, Martin Won ..."
"Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes chronicles the blossoming of Asian American art and anticipates the growing democratization of American art and culture. Pairing work by twenty-four contemporary Asian American visual artists with responses provocatively drawn from cultural critics, other artists, activists, and intellectuals, this book explores themes of geographical movement, the sexuality of Asian bodies, colonization, miscegenation, hybrid fo ..."
"Dragon queens, cherry vodka and even a sex poem? This collection of bad girl stories covers it all. Writers from around the globe have come together to bring you the best in short fiction and poetry. “I need you baby I am craving a hunger that only you can satisfy Your lips are my one desire” ~ ChocolatePoet “I looked up at the band. I saw the top of the drummers head as he slouched over the drums. The beat did something, what I wasn’ ..."