A principality of Its Own: Fourty Years of Visual Arts and the Americas Society, is the title of the text published by the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection and the David Rockerfeller Center of Latin American Studies of Harvard, co-edited by Jose Luis Falconi, curator of the Art Forum of the David Rockerfeller Center of Latin American Studies of Harvard, and Gabriela Rangel, director of Visual Arts of the Americas Society. The publication brings together 15 essays by different historians, curators and critics who examine certain aspects of the history of Latin American art in the United States. Among the themes dealt with in the book are: the origins and the role fulfilled by the Americas Society in the Cold War and its context; the role of Mexican art through the extraordinary exhibitions that took place in the gallery since 1970; the history of Brazilian photography as a form of art. Among the authors, such names as Paulo Herkenhoff, Beverly Adams, Luis Camnitzer and Alexander Alberro can be found. The text also highlights the photographic series Incas Room (2005), commissioned to the artist Alexander Apostol, who was inspired by the architecture of the Americas Society building. The book is 300 pages long and in hardback, with 100 illustrations, 40 of which are in color.