Sarah Lucas: Kunstverein Hamburg.(Critical Essay)

Take a table. Fry two eggs and place them side-by-side at one end. At the other, take a kebab and put it in the middle. Seen as a sculpture, these elements pointedly assert their sheer materiality. Even so, to not see them as breasts and a vagina is impossible. Roughly thirty years before Sarah Lucas made Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab, 1992, featured in this British artist's midcareer retrospective, Robert Morris argued for a "literalist" art--devoid of parts--that would deflect anthropomorphic readings.

This idea became a standard for Minimalist sculpture. Even though ...

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