Edited by Karen Marta and Gabriela Rangel, Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking is a fully illustrated pocket book released to accompany the same-titled exhibition at the Americas Society (October 9, 2018–January 12, 2019).

The publication focuses on the ideas developed by the prominent Caribbean thinkers Lydia Cabrera (Havana, 1899–Miami, 1991) and Èdouard Glissant (Sainte-Marie, Martinique, 1928–Paris, 2011) and an archipelago of modern and contemporary artists whose works respond to their notions of identity. Artists include: Etel Adnan, Kader Attia, Tania Bruguera, Manthia Diawara, Mestre Didi, Melvin Edwards, Simone Fattal, Sylvie Glissant, Koo Jeong A, Wifredo Lam, Marc Latamie, Roberto Matta, Julie Mehretu, Philippe Parreno, Amelia Peláez, Asad Raza, Anri Sala, Antonio Seguí, Diamond Stingily, Elena Tejada-Herrera, Jack Whitten, and Pedro Zylbersztajn.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Susan Segal and Dr. Julio Frenk
• Trembling Thinking, or Ethnography of the Unknowable by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gabriela Rangel, and Asad Raza
• Exhibition Checklist by Diana Flatto
• Archival Documents
• Biographies and Selected Bibliographies
• Credits
• Acknowledgments

Learn more about the exhibition Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking at Americas Society.

Price: $5. To purchase this catalogue, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org

Edited by Karen Marta and Gabriela Rangel, José Leonilson: Empty Man is a fully illustrated publication released to accompany the solo exhibition of José Leonilson at the Americas Society (September 27, 2017–February 3, 2018).

José Leonilson came of age as an artist during the 80s generation in Brazil. What he shared with this diverse artistic milieu was the so-called "joy of painting," rediscovered in the years following the end of Brazil's dictatorship. What separated him from his contemporaries was his personal way of working and his distinct aesthetic centered on raw emotional feelings, introspective musings, and private affairs. Focusing on Leonilson's production as a mature artist, the catalogue will feature approximately fifty paintings, drawings, and intimate embroideries made between the mid-1980s until 1993, when the artist died of AIDS. This short yet prolific period showcases the artist's fully developed language, connecting Leonilson's oeuvre with contemporary art practices, Brazilian vernacular traditions, and global issues prompted by the AIDS crisis.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Susan Segal
• Empty Man: Autobiography of an Artist as a Young Man by Cecilia Brunson, Gabriela Rangel, and Susanna V. Temkin
• Plates
• Leonilson: Parangolé-Poem by Luis Pérez Oramas
• Artist’s Notebook
• Frequent Traveler Program: Leonilson, the Professional Tourist by Yuji Kawasima
• Travel Album
• Running Stitch, Outrunning Time by Jenni Sorkin
• Ideal Vogue
• Unpublished Text and Translation
• Selected Exhibition History
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Credits
• Acknowledgments 

Learn more about the exhibition José Leonilson: Empty Man in Americas Society and watch a video.

You can purchase the catalogue here.

Edited by Karen Marta, Gabriela Rangel, and Lucía Sanromán, Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg is a fully illustrated publication released to accompany the solo exhibition of Mexican artist Erick Meyenberg (b. 1980) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (October 14, 2016–February 19, 2017) and at Americas Society in New York (May 4–July 29, 2017).

Erick Meyenberg works at the intersection of drawing, collage, video, data analysis, and sound. La rueda no se parece a una pierna (The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg, 2016) is the end result of a long collaboration with members of the high school marching band Banda de Guerra Lobos at the Colegio Hispano Americano in Mexico City. Meyenberg and the teenagers—together with curators, guest musicians, composers, choreographers, costume designers, and a video production team—cocreated the choreography and concomitant performances that took the band through some of Mexico City’s most emblematic and politically marked sites: the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, where a massacre of protesting university students took place in 1968; the Monument to the Revolution, commemorating the Mexican Revolution of 1910; and the shopping center Centro Comercial Forum Buenavista, symbolizing Mexico’s embeddedness in transnational post-industrial capitalism.

Lavishly illustrated, and with essays and an interview with the artist, the book provides an in-depth introduction to the work of one of Mexico’s major emerging contemporary artists.

Table of contents:

• Foreword by Deborah Cullinan, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Susan L. Segal, Americas Society
• "When One No Longer Is" by Osvaldo Sánchez
• "Surrealist, not Surrealist" by Gabriela Rangel
• "On Transmuted Times" — A conversation between Erick Meyenberg and Lucía Sanromán
• Artist’s Biography
• Contributors
• Credits
• Acknowledgements

Learn more about the exhibition Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg and watch a video with the artist and curator. 

You can purchase the catalogue here.

Told and Untold, published in association with the first U.S. solo exhibition dedicated to Kati Horna (b. 1912 Budapest – d. 2000 Mexico City), features photographs—some never before seen—displayed alongside the newspapers and magazines in which they circulated. Though she is now perhaps best known as a surrealist, Horna often defined herself as collaborator with the press, a definition that encompassed not only her activities as a field photographer during the Spanish Civil War, but also her work as a layout artist and photomonteur for anarchist publications. From her early years in interwar Paris through her late work produced in Mexico, this publication offers a comprehensive overview of Horna’s diverse practice, including her photographs, contact sheets, montaged cuttings, and personal albums.

Table of contents:

• "Memory and the Recovery of Lived Experiences: Kati Horna, 'Invisibilist'" by Norah Horna
• "'Each one is One': Traces Left with Light on Paper" by Andrea Geyer
• "Loss and Renewal: The Politics and Poetics of Kati Horna’s Photo Stories" by Michel Otayek
• "The 'Social Fantastic' in Kati Horna’s Paris (1933–1937)" by Maria Antonella Pelizzari
• "'First, Win the War!' Kati Horna, Gendered Images and Political Discord during the Spanish Civil War" by Miriam Margarita Basilio
• "Kati Horna in Mexico and Her Representations of the Female Experience" by Christina L. De León and Melina Kervandjian
• "Kati Horna, Mathias Goeritz, and Architectural Photography" by Cristóbal Andrés Jácome

Learn more about the Told and Untold exhibition.

Hardcover, English, 188 pages.

You can purchase the catalogue here.

Hemispheres: A Labyrinth Sketchbook (Hemisferios: apuntes para un laberinto) is a fully illustrated, bilingual, mid-career study of Mexican contemporary artist Silvia Gruner (b. 1959, Mexico City). Published to accompany the artist’s solo exhibition presented at the Americas Society in New York (February-June 2016) and at the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico (October 2016-January 2017), the book examines the artist’s experimental films, videos, photographs, installations, and performances dating from the 1980s to the present. Gruner’s work draws upon her personal as well as her collective identity, exploring the relationship between the psychological and subjective, the political and the public. Her artistic production is recognized for significantly contributing to the development of contemporary art in Mexico through her appropriation and sophisticated manipulation of vernacular culture and her exploration of the body. With scholarly texts and an interview with the artist, Hemispheres: A Labyrinth Sketchbook (Hemisferios: apuntes para un laberinto) provides an in depth examination of one of Mexico’s foremost contemporary artists.

Table of contents:

• "The Labyrinth as Sketchbook" by Gabriela Rangel
• "My Body of Work is Mine: An Interview with Silvia Gruner. Part One" by Maria Minera
• "Images Gilded by the Darkness of the Sun: Alteriity as Analogy in the Work of Silvia Gruner" by Irmgard Emmelhainz
• "My Body of Work is Mine: An Interview with Silvia Gruner. Part Two" by Maria Minera
• "Reanimation and Repetition: On Silvia Gruner’s Tests" by Tarek Elhaik
• "My Body of Work is Mine: An Interview with Silvia Gruner. Part Three" by Maria Minera
• "Silvia's Self" by Tatiana Cuevas

Learn more about the Hemispheres exhibition and watch a video.

Softcover; Spanish and English; 252 pages

Price: $35. To purchase this catalogue, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org

Contributors and essay topics include: 

• "May 1968 à la Minujín" by Gabriela Rangel
• "Marta Minujín’s MINUCODE and the New Media Environment" by Alexander Alberro
• "Marta Minujín’s MINUCODE: Code and Context" by Inés Katzenstein
• "MINUCODE, 1968" at the Center for Inter-American Relations, New York
• "MINUCODEs, 2010" at the Americas Society Art Gallery, New York
• Related Works by Marta Minujín
• "Simultaneity In Simultaneity, 1966" at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• "On Marta Minujín, A Mass Media Happening: Notes Toward A Semantic Analysis" (Excerpt) by Eliseo Verón
• "Marta Minujín’s 'Simultaneity In Simultaneity'" by Michael Kirby
• "Circuit (Superheterodyne), 1967" at the Université Sir George Williams, International and Universal Exhibition, Montreal, Canada
• "Circuit" by Luc Perreault
• Artist’s Timeline, 1960–1970

Hardcover: 168 pages

You can purchase the catalogue here.

Contributors and essay topics include:

• "Lingua Franca for the Future" by Gabriela Rangel
• "Cannibal Homes: Additive Modernity and Design by Absorption in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, 1940–1979" by Jorge F. Rivas Pérez
• "Miguel Arroyo and Pottery" by Lourdes Blanco
• "Social Utopia and Modern Design in Latin America" by Ana Elena Mallet
• "Modern Lifestyles: Clara Porset and the Art of Exhibiting the Mexican Home" by Christina L. De León
• "Modern Brazilian Design" by Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
• "Design’s Bureaucratic Unconscious" by Luis M. Castañeda
• "Exhibition of a Modernist House (considerations)" by Mário de Andrade
• "North American Interiors: Contemporary Examples" by Clara Porset
• "Modern Furniture for a Colonial House" by Miguel Arroyo
• "Living Design: In Search of Our Own Kind of Furniture" by Clara Porset
• "In South America: After Le Corbusier, What Is Happening?" by Lina Bo Bardi
• "Ambient Planning: 'Design' at an Impasse" by Lina Bo Bardi
• "Tecla Tofano: Ars Politica" by Marta Traba
• "Lesson in Architecture Lesson — for Oscar Niemeyer" by Ferreira Gullar
• "Interview with Oscar Niemeyer" by Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
• "Interview with Sergio Rodrigues" by Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
• "Designer Biographies" by Amanda York

Learn more about the exhibition.

Complete with plates section, exhibition checklist, and bibliography.

Hardcover: 280 pages

Price: $50 (non-member) / $40 (AS member). To purchase this catalogue, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org