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Does art have a sex? A study of Sarah Lucas's famous assemblage of objects that suggest male and female body parts.
Amna Malik opens her study of Sarah Lucas's Au Naturel (1994) by asking “Does art have a sex? And if so, what does it look like?” Au Naturel is an assemblage of objects—a mattress, a bucket, a pair of melons, oranges and a cucumber—that suggest male and female body parts. Through much of Lucas's work, and particularly through Au Naturel, Malik argues, we are placed in a position of spectatorship that makes us see “sex” as so many dismembered parts, with no apparent morality attached—no implication of guilt, shame, or embarrassment. The sardonic and irreverent nature of Lucas's observations, moreover, violates certain assumptions about what kind of art women artists make. This, Malik proposes, is the significance of Lucas's work for a later generation of artists who are unburdened by the need to insist on questions of gender and sexual politics as a necessary subject for the woman artist. Lucas's shift between high and low art and culture operates as a shift between “high” aesthetic ideas about the art object as a metaphoric play of meaning and its “low” associations with the materiality of the literal object and its allusions to the genitals and sex. Au Naturel creates a series of associations that bring the ideal into collision with a base materialism emphasizing desire as a condition of the meaning of the object.
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Amna Malik is a Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the Slade School of Fine Art, London.
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Paperback. Condition: Good in wraps. 15 x 21cm 102pp good paperback, bottom corner has a minor curl. The cover notes askl: 'Does art have a sex? And if so, what does it look like? With these questions Anna Malik opens her study of Sarah Lucas's Au Naturel (1994), an assemblage of ojects that suggest male and female body parts. Through much of Lucas's work and particularly in Au Naturel 'sex' appears with no apparent morality attached - no implication of guilt, shame or embarrassment ' Sarah Lucas iis an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged in 1988. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour by incorporating photography, sculpture, collage and found objects. Seller Inventory # 32182
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