Not afraid: Rubell family collection

Mark Coetzee

Phaidon, 2004 - Art - 240 pages

This book is the first publication on one of the largest and most important private contemporary art collections in the world today, the Rubell Family Collection. Collectors since 1967, the Rubell family (now based in Miami, Florida) today owns some 6,000 works of art, from paintings to sculptures, photography, videos, and installations, by the most significant artists working from the 1970s to the present. The collection reads like a "Who's Who" of contemporary art, and includes works by Andy Warhol, Carl Andre, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Mike Kelley, and Louise Bourgeois, among many, many others. This book is picture-driven, and showcases some 300 reproductions of the most important works in the collection. It is organized neither chronologically nor alphabetically, but is rather intended to convey the experience of visiting the collection, through the successive installations of the collection since it was opened to the public in Miami in 1996.Neither a catalogue nor an art history manual, this book is an astonishing collection of images of contemporary art at its best. It also includes an introduction by collection curator Mark Coetzee, an enlighteninginterview with the Rubells on the collection and the process of collecting, and a full list of plates.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Not afraid: Rubell family collection
• Author: Mark Coetzee
• Editor: Mark Coetzee
• Contributor: Mark Coetzee
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Phaidon, 2004
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 8, 2007
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General; Art / General; Art / History / Contemporary (1945-); Art / History / General; Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); Art / Reference