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Articulating the ideas, colors and forms of the Pan-Africanist movement within a “Latin-Amefrican” imaginaryThis catalog documents the paintings of African-Brazilian scholar, artist, poet, dramatist and activist Abdias Nascimento (1914–2011), compiling around 70 works from his wide-ranging career.

The first monograph for an influential indigenous Brazilian painterCarmézia Emiliano (born 1960) is a Macuxi painter and pioneering Indigenous figure on the contemporary Brazilian art scene. This volume accompanies her first solo exhibition, featuring recent canvases depicting landscapes, objects of material culture and the daily life of her community.

Queer activism meets grassroots printing and Latin American identity in this typographic celebration of resistanceFormed in 2007, the Buenos Aires–based collective Serigrafistas Queer employs accessible graphic printing techniques with slogans applied to pieces of paper and strips of fabric. This bright and stylish introduction to their work reproduces 62 works, together with fanzines, visual records and a portable manual on screenprinting.

On the intricate sculptures of Leonor Antunes, with meditations on her influences from Anni Albers to Lygia ClarkOften built out of wire, rope or leather, the sculptures of Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes (born 1972) establish complex relationships between texture, light and the body. This overview of her work also includes selected texts on her key influences.

A compendious celebration of the exuberant, multilayered paintings and prints of Beatriz MilhazesPublished with Museu de Arte de São Paulo.This is the most comprehensive book to date on Beatriz Milhazes, featuring many previously unpublished paintings and prints. Milhazes, a pivotal figure in contemporary art and the history of abstraction, works with a complex repertoire of images associated with different motifs, origins and sources. She works mainly in painting, printmaking and collage, but also in drawing, sculpture, artist’s books and textiles, among other mediums. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, geometry and free form, her compositions are intricate, dense, multicolored and literally full of layers—of colors, paints, papers and meanings. Milhazes’ sources are diverse and varied: from modernism to the Baroque, from folk art or "arte popular" to pop culture, from fashion to jewelry, from architecture to abstraction, from the history of art to nature. Her work encompasses multiple references, including the artists Hilma af Klint, Sonia Delaunay, Bridget Riley, Henri Matisse, Tarsila do Amaral and Piet Mondrian.Beatriz Milhazes: Avenida Paulista includes more than 170 works made since 1989, a turning point in Milhazes’ career. It was in that year that she developed the technique she calls “monotransfer,” in which she paints on a sheet of transparent plastic and then decals or transfers the painted and dry element to the canvas. The book provides a unique opportunity to discover her diverse, complex, multifaceted and singular work.Beatriz Milhazes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960. Her works can be found in the collections of the Guggenheim, MASP, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Tate and the Centre Pompidou, among others. Milhazes lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

Bugres' career proposes a more plural history of Brazilian sculptureThis is the first monograph on the Brazilian sculptor Conceição dos Bugres (1914–84)—best known for her “bugres,” wood sculptures covered in wax and paint resembling minimalist human forms, which she produced prolifically for three decades.

“Wool pictures” from a Brazilian folk artist known for her intricate and figurative tapestriesBrazilian artist Madalena Santos Reinbolt (1919–77) was known for her “wool pictures,” intricately embroidered tapestries evoking scenes and characters from her agropastoral past in the countryside of Bahia. This volume accompanies her posthumous solo show at MASP.