Au Naturel.
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Title |
Au Naturel. |
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Creator |
Lucas, Sarah (English sculptor, installation artist, and photographer, born 1962) |
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Date |
1994 |
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Cultural Context |
English
British
European |
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Style/Period |
Young British Art |
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Subject |
Mixed media
Puns (Visual works)
Sex
Couples
Relations between the sexes
Human body
Body parts
Anatomy
Men
Women
Breasts
Genitals
Pails
Fruit
Melons
Food
Oranges
Cucumbers
Vegetables
Mattresses
Beds |
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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) |
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Material |
Mixed media
Mattress, water-bucket, melons, oranges, cucumber
Mattresses
Buckets (vessels)
Water-bucket
Fruit
Melon
Orange (fruit)
Cucumber
Food
Citrus fruit |
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Measurements |
84 x 167.6 x 144.8 cm |
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Work Type |
Sculpture
Installations (visual works)
Mixed media |
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Repository |
Saatchi Collection (London, England, United Kingdom) |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.238, fig.126) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Saatchi Gallery, London. (LUC.0011) |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 826-12.jpg |
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