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RUBELL FAMILY COLLECTION
Beg Borrow and Steal
Rubell Family Collection
Edited by Juan Roselione-Valadez. Text by Karl Haendel, Thomas Houseago, David Moos, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.
Stolen and appropriated imagery has proved to be the principle means by which artists have challenged the image industry that they must constantly compete with. Drawing on the vast resources of the Rubell family collection, this massive catalogue appraises the landmarks of appropriation art. Among the artists featured are Maurizio Cattelan, Peter Coffin, Aaron Curry, Marcel Duchamp, Elmgreen & Dragset, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Urs Fischer, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Mark Handforth, Rachel Harrison, Jenny Holzer, Jonathan Horowitz, Rashid Johnson, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Mark Leckey, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Robert Longo, Kris Martin, Paul McCarthy, Takashi Murakami, Cady Noland, Richard Prince, Charles Ray, Jason Rhoades, Thomas Ruff, David Salle, Philip Taaffe, Hank Willis Thomas, Piotr Uklanski, Meyer Vaisman, Kelley Walker, Wang Ziwei, Christopher Wool and Zhang Huan.
"I always look at the fact that art is made as a miracle--that artists manage to make a bodies of work as an extraordinary gift--something for the most part entirely against the odds. It is one of the few human acts, when it's great, that we can point to with a kind wonder and pride. It also amazes me that there are those people in each generation that support the making of art--that decide to come in and share the risk and follow the journey--there is something heroic in that when the feeling is right. Because it is impossible--everything always collapses into ruins--the index seems to run out--history gives up and art--a memery of something pure and honorable--seems to die."
Thomas Houseago, excerpted from "Beg Borrow and Steal. Featured image also from "Beg Borrow and Steal.
"The most interesting contemporary art almost always engages with a future that is not yet known, and we believe this new work is dealing with that future. The same way Andy Warhol predicted our current culture of fame, artists today are working around something we are just beginning to understand. It has to do with information overload, time, the collapse of time, indistinct authorship, virtuality and intense individuality. In the future, there might be a simple explanation, but for the moment it is a glorious mess of of things."
FORMAT: Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 440 color / 40 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $49.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $60 ISBN: 9780982119525 PUBLISHER: Rubell Family Collection AVAILABLE: 4/30/2011 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by Rubell Family Collection. Edited by Juan Roselione-Valadez. Text by Karl Haendel, Thomas Houseago, David Moos, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.
Stolen and appropriated imagery has proved to be the principle means by which artists have challenged the image industry that they must constantly compete with. Drawing on the vast resources of the Rubell family collection, this massive catalogue appraises the landmarks of appropriation art. Among the artists featured are Maurizio Cattelan, Peter Coffin, Aaron Curry, Marcel Duchamp, Elmgreen & Dragset, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Urs Fischer, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Mark Handforth, Rachel Harrison, Jenny Holzer, Jonathan Horowitz, Rashid Johnson, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Mark Leckey, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Robert Longo, Kris Martin, Paul McCarthy, Takashi Murakami, Cady Noland, Richard Prince, Charles Ray, Jason Rhoades, Thomas Ruff, David Salle, Philip Taaffe, Hank Willis Thomas, Piotr Uklanski, Meyer Vaisman, Kelley Walker, Wang Ziwei, Christopher Wool and Zhang Huan.
