Alisa Bunbury

Curator - Prints & Drawings
National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne

Artists' Books in the NGV International
Artistic involvement in the production of books has occcurred throughout the history of book-making. Using examples from the National Gallery of Victoria's international collection, this talk will look briefly at two aspects of book production: the development of the printed book in the late 15th - early 16th centuries, in particular the illustrated books of Albrect Durer and his contemporaries, and the rise of interest in the artists' book in France in the first half of the 20th century, inspired in particular by Parisian dealer and publisher Ambrose Vollard.

Alisa Bunbury has been Curator in the Prints and Drawings Department of the National Gallery of Victoria since 2002. Prior to this she was Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Alisa was Harold Wright Scholar at the British Museum in 1998; in the same year she completed her M.A. at the University of Melbourne. Her most recent exhibition was From Paris with Love: The Graphic Arts in France 1890s - 1850s (NGV International 2004).

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