Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas

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Sarah Lucas is an internationally celebrated artist known for the provocative use of materials and imagery in her work. Incorporating ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understandings of sex, class and gender over the last four decades.

Looking beyond the generation of 1990s Young British Artists during which Lucas emerged, this visually stunning exhibition book invites the public to marvel at the diversity of her work across sculpture, installation and photography. Featuring an artist interview with Louisa Buck, new texts by writers Lauren Elkin and Nathalie Olah and a new poem by the artist Cerith Wyn Evans, Happy Gas is a brash, tender and boundary-breaking exploration of what makes us human.

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Louisa Buck MA Cantab, MA Courtauld Institute, is a writer and broadcaster on contemporary art. Since 1997 she has been London contemporary art columnist for The Art Newspaper, and is a regular reviewer on BBC radio and TV, including Front Row, Nightwaves and BBC World Services The Strand. Other outlets include Vogue, Artforum, Guardian and Sunday Telegraph and she is the author of a number of catalogue essays for institutions including Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, ICA London and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her books include Relative Values or Whats Art Worth (co-authored with Philip Dodd) (BBC Books 1991); Moving Targets 2: A Users Guide to British Art Now (Tate 2000); Market Matters: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Art Market (Arts Council England 2004) and Owning Art: The Contemporary Art Collectors Handbook (co-authored with Judith Greer) (Cultureshock Media 2006). Her latest book, Commissioning Contemporary Art : A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists will be published by Thames & Hudson in October 2012. Louisa was a judge for the 2005 Turner Prize.