Remembered today mainly for a question he never uttered (“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”), Henry Morton Stanley was in truth a brilliant adventurer who overcame a nightmarish childhood to become Africa’s greatest explorer. Drawing on previously closed archives, this grand and colorful biography presents the first accurate picture of Stanley and his extraordinary achievements.

A magnificent survey of the rich and varied arts in Latin America from 1492 to the end of the colonial era.

This book scrutinizes a wide range of artistic responses to the Spanish Civil War to illuminate the relation between art and politics during a period of social crisis. Through the works of Miró, Dalí, Caballero, Masson, and Picasso the author investigates how Surrealism served to bridge the divide between political thought and political act.

This major new study of one of the most internationally celebrated artists of the 18th century considers the artist’s pictorial strategies, significant contributions to portraiture, and role as a woman in shaping European visual culture.

Americans are profoundly divided over same-sex marriage, and now that gay civil unions and marriages are legal in some states, the debates have become increasingly vitriolic. In this book Andrew Koppelman draws on legal precedent to suggest workable and humane legal solutions to the problems that arise when gay couples cross state borders.

Featuring never-before-seen family diaries and photographs, this book examines Hesse’s artistic achievement in sculpture within the historical context of her life.