イギリス人アーティスト、サラ・ルーカス（Sarah Lucas）の作品集。2023年9月から2024年1月までロンドン「テート・ブリテン（Tate Britain）」で開催されている展覧会に伴い刊行された。彫刻からインスタレーション、写真作品まで、作者の作品の多様性を詳細に見ることができる一冊。

作者は、材料と心象を刺激的に用いた作品で国際的に知られている。過去40年間にわたり、世の中のありふれたものを思いがけない方法で混ぜ合わせ、我々が持つセックスや階級、性別に対する解釈に挑み続けてきた。

本書は、作者が台頭した1990年代の「ヤング・ブリティッシュ・アーティスト（Young British Artists / YBAs）」世代の先にあるものを見据えながら、展示のテーマと作品を研究した成果である。猥褻なユーモアと大胆な斬新性をもって、作者は人間であることの本当の意味、そしてそのすべての面を見せてくれるのだ。

現代美術の放送者であり作家のルイーザ・バック（Louisa Buck）、ジャーナリストであり編集者のナタリー・オラー（Nathalie Olah）、作家であり翻訳者のローレン・エルキン（Lauren Elkin）らが寄稿、そのテキストが作者の世界をより我々に深く探究させる。

Take a closer look at the diversity of Sarah Lucas’s work across sculpture, installation and photography with this stunning hardback exhibition book.

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, the book explores the themes and artworks of Tate Britain’s Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas exhibition. Breaking boundaries with her bawdy humour and bold daring, Lucas shows us the whole spectrum of what it truly means to be human. Contributions from Louisa Buck, Nathalie Olah, Lauren Elkin and more help us delve into Lucas's world.

Dominique Heyse-Moore is Senior Curator, Contemporary British Art, at Tate Britain. Amy Emmerson-Martin is Assistant Curator, Contemporary British Art, at Tate Britain.

Louisa Buck is a writer and broadcaster. Since 1997, she has been the contemporary art columnist for The Art Newspaper, and is a regular reviewer on BBC radio and TV. She has authored catalogue essays for institutions including Tate and Whitechapel Gallery. Her books include Market Matters: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Art Market, and Commissioning Contemporary Art : A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists.

Nathalie Olah is a freelance journalist and editor. Her work has been published widely, including in Dazed, AnOther and the Times Literary Supplement. Her first book, Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity was published by Repeater Books in 2019. She is the author of Tate Publishing’s Look Again: Class.

Lauren Elkin is a writer and translator, most recently the author of No. 91/92: a diary of a year on the bus and the UK translator of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. Flâneuse: Women Walk the City was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a Notable Books of 2017, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, and a best book of 2016 by the Guardian, the Financial Times, the New Statesman, and the Observer. It is being translated into nine languages.