Published 2012 by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
44 pages
157 x 111mm, softcover, with black and white illustration
Edited by Christina Barton
With text by John Finlay and Matt Plummer
Design by The International Office
Printed by Milne
ISBN 978-1-877309-27-4

This catalogue was published in association with the exhibition Peripheral Relations: Marcel Duchamp and New Zealand Art 1960-2011 at Adam Art Gallery in 2012.

'Peripheral Relations: Marcel Duchamp and New Zealand Art 1960-2011 is something of a milestone for the Adam Art Gallery. Firstly, it is a marker of our maturing as an institution, proving our ability to meet the challenges of gathering together a substantial range of works from public and private sources, an exercise that has entailed complex loan negotiations and close collaborations with artists and institutions. And secondly, it is the first substantial exhibition to draw on the scholarship of one of Victoria University's doctoral students. In successfully delivering his thesis in March 2012, Marcus Moore brings to a new stage the definition and historicisation of New Zealand's broadly conceptual art history. He treats Marcel Duchamp as a pivotal figure around which this history has unfolded, from the 1960s with the first focused absorption of Duchamp's life and work; to the 1970s, the era of 'post-object art'; through to the present, as conceptualism's terms and conditions have been revitalised and expanded.

— Preface by Christina Barton