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Bare torsos, totemic altars, evocations of childbirth and gender fluidity form the basis for Haynes' visceral, carnal oil paintingsWillem de Kooning once stated that flesh was the reason oil paint was invented. To artist Clarity Haynes (born 1971), the correlation between flesh and paint is alchemical. Portals is the first survey celebrating her paintings. The book explores her approach to nontraditional portraiture informed by feminism and gender interrogation, starting with her seminal The Breast/Chest Portrait Project, ongoing for the past 25 years; her series of trompe l'oeil Altars; and her new Crowning series. With her depictions of blood, Haynes revels in the abject and transcendent, in defiance of the taboo subject of childbirth in the history of art. Her queer activist point of view shifts the gaze to a decidedly visceral, sensual engagement with paint, challenging what bodies can be.

Otherness and exploitation in the fraught oeuvre of Post-Impressionism's canonical painterThis book accompanies the first exhibition to investigate Paul Gauguin's (1848-1903) relationship with the question of alterity and the exoticizing of otherness in his paintings. Adopting an engagingly critical tone, Paul Gauguin: The Other and I deals with central questions within the celebrated Post-Impressionist's oeuvre, focusing on both his self-portraits and his works produced in Tahiti.Alongside reproductions of relevant works, the book also features essays that examine the tensions between Gauguin's biography and the image that the artist assiduously created of himself, as well as the way in which his oeuvre reinforced an imaginary about otherness, addressing crucial and current issues such as the notion of primitivism, the "exotic" and the "tropics," and cultural appropriation, as well as matters related to the erotization of the female body, sexuality and androgyny.

Created in 2013, MAHKU (Huni Kuin Artists Movement) began its work by translating traditional songs of the Indigenous Huni Kuin people into figurative drawings. This is the group's first book, including transcriptions of their songs and myths, as well as images of their visual practice.

Recent textiles from a fourth-generation Navajo artist working in the Germantown Revival styleTextile artist, member of the Navajo Nation and fourth-generation weaver Melissa Cody (born 1983) overlays traditional geometric patterns with references ranging from pop culture to the aesthetics of new technologies in vibrant and eye-dazzling weavings.

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.