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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
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Work Title (display):
Fuck the Egg Man
Image Title:
front view
Work Dates (display):
2003
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2012-03-15
Work Creator (display):
Sarah Lucas (English, born 1962)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
English sculptor, installation artist and photographer. She studied in London at the Working Men's College (19823), London College of Printing (19834), and Goldsmiths' College (19847) and emerged as one of the major Young British Artists during the 1990s, with a body of highly provocative work. In the early 1990s she began using furniture as a substitute for the human body, usually with crude genital punning. In works such as Bitch (table, t-shirt, melons, vacuum-packed smoked fish, 1995; see exh. cat., 1996, pp. 545), she merges low-life misogynist tabloid culture with the economy of the ready-made, with the intention of confronting sexual stereotyping. As with earlier works in which she had displayed enlarged pages from the Sunday Sport newspaper, the intention was to attack stereotyping on its own ground, using a base language given critical viability by an affinity to previous movements such as Situationism and Surrealism. She is also known for her confrontational self-portraits, such as Human Toilet Revisited (1998; London, Tate), a colour photograph in which she sits on a toilet smoking a cigarette. In her solo exhibition The Fag Show (London, Sadie Coles, 2000), she explored her obsession with cigarettes as a material for art, suggesting the connection between smoking and sexually obsessive activity. Self-portrait with Cigarettes (2000; London, Saatchi Gal.), a self-portrait made with cigarettes, makes a connection between the obsessional, introverted activities of smoking and drawing. The morbidity and provocative nature of her work has often elicited comparisons with Francis Bacon and Damien Hirst; her androgynous occupation of this masculine low-life domain gives her work much of its critical character. In 1996 she was the subject of a BBC documentary, Two Melons and a Stinking Fish. (John-Paul Stonard. "Lucas, Sarah." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 17 Mar. 2009 .)
Work Style Period:
21st century
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21st century
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false
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
births
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births
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Work Subject:
consumerism
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consumerism
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false
Work Subject:
nature
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nature
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false
Work Subject:
eggs and egg components
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eggs and egg components
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false
Work Subject:
life
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life
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false
Work Subject:
death
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death
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
future
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future
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false
Work Subject:
purity
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purity
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false
Work Subject:
artists' materials
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artists' materials
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Work Subject:
animals
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animals
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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false
Work Material and Technique (display):
Polystyrene, jesmonite, acrylic paint, oil paint, newspaper, collage, chain
Work Measurements (display):
140 cm (H) x 84 cm (W) x 84 cm (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Barbara Gladstone Gallery
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Fairhurst, Angus, Damien Hirst, and Sarah Lucas. In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida: Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas. London: Tate Publishing, 2004. Print.
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Fairhurst, Angus, Damien Hirst, and Sarah Lucas. In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida: Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas. London: Tate Publishing, 2004. Print.
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false
Image Source Reproduction page number:
73
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Jochen Littkemann
Work Rights (display):
© Sarah Lucas
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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