GBA: Print Publishing in the Gazette des Beaux Arts | 2009

Published 2009 by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
39 pages
298 x 210mm, softcover, black and white illustrations
With essays by Peter Bisley, Jeanne Mueller, Ariana Beswick, Ioana Gordon-Smith, Jan Watchman, Chantelle Naraine, Vera Mey, and Belinda Ricketts.
Designed by Aaron Beehre and Alice Baxter
Printed by Griffin Press
ISBN 1-877309-18-4

This catalogue was published in association with the exhibition Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, October 2009 - February 2010.

'This exhibition has been possible due to the recent purchase of a complete set of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts from 1859-1939 by the Victoria University of Wellington Library. Often, the finest prints have been removed from the volumes, but our set is intact. It thus provided the perfect subject for an exhibition project that examines not only the prints themselves as independent works of art, but also the specific context in which they were originally published. It has been a privilege to work with my Honours students on this project. Each of them has tackled a specific theme: the techniques employed in the journal, the roles of the journal as an art historical tool in the revival and re-evaluation of artists of the past, the publication of original contemporary prints and the journal's equivocal attitude towards the newest graphic technology—photography. All of these themes are addressed in the exhibition and in the essays in this catalogue.'

— Introduction by David Maskill