Modern Assemblage

Object/Work🔺

• Catalog Level:🔺 item (value type: controlled list)

• Type:🔺 assemblage (value type: authority)

• Components/Parts-Quantity: 1
  Type: objects (value type: controlled list)

Classification🔺

• Terms:🔺
  sculpture
  assemblage
  readymade
  conceptual art
  Modern art (value type: controlled list)

Titles or Names🔺

• Text:🔺 Cigarette Tits [Idealized Smokers Chest II] (value type: free text)
  Preference: preferred (value type: controlled list)

Creation🔺

• Creator Description:🔺 Sarah Lucas (English sculptor, installation artist, and photographer, born 1962) (value type: free text)

• Identity:🔺 Lucas, Sarah (_value type: authority)
  Role:🔺 sculptor

• Creation Date:🔺 1999 (value type: free text)
  Earliest:🔺 1999 Latest:🔺 1999 (value type: controlled format)

Styles/Period/Group/Movement

• Indexing Term:_
  Young British Artsits (YBAS)
  Abject art
  Feminist art

Measurements🔺

• Dimensions Description:🔺 80 x 48 x 52 cm (31.5 x 18.9 x 20.5 inches) (value type: free text)

• Dimensions Qualifier: largest
  Value: 80 Unit: cm Type: height
  Value: 48 Unit: cm Type: width
  Value: 52 Unit: cm Type: depth (value type: controlled format and controlled lists)

Materials and Techniques🔺

• Description:🔺 chair, balls, cigarettes, and bra (value type: free text)

• Technique Name:
  chair
  balls
  cigarettes
  bra (value type: authority)

Subject Matter🔺

• Indexing Terms:🔺
  human figures
  female figure
  human body
  abstraction
  assemblage
  found objects
  bras
  cigarettes
  humor
  smoking
  chest
  chair
  underwear
  phallus
  feminism
  sex (value type: authority)

Descriptive Note

• Text: In this sculpture, artist Sarah Lucas constructs an assemblage of found objects meant to serve as a stand-in for the feminine human body. Cigarettes, which feature prominently in Lucas’s work, cover the sculpture’s “breasts,” serving as phallic stand-ins through which traditional gender stereotypes are subverted. Through humor and references to vernacular tabloid culture, Lucas critiques the male gaze using its own rhetoric and lexicon. (value type: free text)

• Citation: Tate online (value type: authority)
  Page: accessed 30 July 2024 (value type: free text)

Current Location🔺

• Repository Name/Geographic Location:🔺 Tate (London, England, United Kindgon) (value type: authority)
  Repository Numbers:🔺 T13928 (value type: free text)

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Revised 30 July 2024
by Emily Benoff