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Title
Au
Naturel
.
Creator
Lucas, Sarah (English sculptor, installation artist, and photographer, born 1962)
Date
1994
Cultural Context
English
British
European
Style/Period
Young British Art
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Mixed media
Representation (form of expression)
Imagery
Sexuality
Sex
Phallic
Genitals (animal or human components)
Male
Eroticism
Anatomy
Lovers
Mattresses
Buckets (vessels)
Vessels (containers)
Containers (receptacles)
Fruit
Melon
Orange (fruit)
Citrus fruit
Food
Three-quarter views
Oblique views
Eye-level views
Subject
Sculpture
Mixed media
Puns (Visual works)
Sex
Couples
Relations between the sexes
Human body
Body parts
Anatomy
Genitals
Pails
Containers
Fruit
Melons
Food
Citrus fruit
Oranges
Cucumbers
Vegetables
Description
"
Lucas
grew
up
in a
working-class
environment
in
East
London
and
uses
its
idioms
in her
work
. To
some
extent
she has also
borrowed
from the
American
art
that she
saw
in the
late
1980s
in
London's
Saatchi
Gallery
. Her
'grungy'
abject
imagery
partly
echoes
artists
like
Robert
Gober
and
Mike
Kelley
.
However
, there
is
a
distinct
post-feminist
sensibility
in her
art
.
Rather
than
assume
a
politicized
stance
, she
often
appears
to
ape
the
'laddish'
personas
of
some
of her
male
peers
. This was
particularly
evident
when
, in
1993
, she
ran
a
shop
in
Bethnal
Green
with her
fellow-artist
Tracey
Emin
.
Amongst
the
merchandise
offered
were
T-shirts
emblazoned
with
sexual
repartee.
"
(Caption
,
p.238)
; "For
many
commentators
works
such
as
[Damien]
Hirst's
notorious
The
Physical
Impossibility
of
Death
in the
Mind
of
Someone
Living
(1991)
, a
14-foot
tiger
shark
preserved
in
formaldehyde
in an
enormous
glass
tank
, or
Sarah
Lucas's
Au
Naturel
, a
bawdy
assimilation
of
lovers'
anatomies
to the
language
of the
playground
or
building
site
,
simply
rehashed
American
abject
art
or
mindlessly
recycled
the
tropes
of
Dada
,
Fluxus
, or
Arte
Povera.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.238-239)
Material
Mixed media
Mattress, water-bucket, melons, oranges, cucumber
Mattresses
Buckets (vessels)
Water-bucket
Fruit
Melon
Orange (fruit)
Cucumber
Food
Citrus fruit
Measurements
84 x 167.6 x 144.8 cm
Work Type
Sculpture
Installations (visual works)
Mixed media
Repository
Saatchi Collection (London, England, United Kingdom)
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.238, fig.126)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Saatchi Gallery, London. (LUC.0011)
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-12.jpg
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