Paul Holberton publishes Award Winning Catalogue
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The sixth annual The Art Newspaper & AXA Art Exhibition Catalogue Award for the best exhibition catalogue of the year published in the UK and Eire has been given to Xanto: Pottery Painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance, published by Paul Holberton for The Wallace Collection. The judges said it was “Awarded for its sheer intellectual ambition, beautifully expressing the connection between Italian Renaissance pottery and related poetry of the time. This book vividly communicates the aesthetics, thought, and habits of the Renaissance through a scholarly study of one man and his art.”
This year twenty-five catalogues from museums and galleries throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland were short-listed from over 180 entries. The £5,000 cheque was presented to The Wallace Collection at Tate Modern on 22 November 2007.
Notes for editors
Xanto: Pottery Painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance by John Mallet
The Wallace Collection, 215 pp., £25 pb., ISBN 978 0 900785 98 6
Designed by Philip Lewis, produced by Paul Holberton publishing.
Exhibition dates 25 January to 15 April 2007
The The Art Newspaper & AXA Art Exhibition Catalogue Award was established in 2002 to celebrate one of the most important, yet neglected, areas of art book publishing. Although they reach a wider public than art reference books or artist biographies, exhibition catalogues rarely get the acclaim they deserve, despite being the source of some of the newest ideas and research. The Art Newspaper and AXA Art feel that merit should be rewarded, and hope that, over the years, the prize may have encouraged good practice. Indeed, since its launch, the prize has become recognised as a major publishing award, keenly contested by the exhibition-making institutions.
