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    The document lists various themes that artists may consider and address in their work, including paradox, power and consumption, protest, ecology, humor, identity, loss and desire, memory, place, structures, and time. Artists use their art to discuss topics like contradiction, politics, the natural world, satire, stereotypes, emotion, history, land, how we organize knowledge, and how art relates to different concepts of time.

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    The document lists various themes that artists may consider and address in their work, including paradox, power and consumption, protest, ecology, humor, identity, loss and desire, memory, place, structures, and time. Artists use their art to discuss topics like contradiction, politics, the natural world, satire, stereotypes, emotion, history, land, how we organize knowledge, and how art relates to different concepts of time.

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    THEMES
TO
 PLAY

    Spontaneous and joyful, subversive or amusing,


    CONSIDER

 play can take many forms in daily life as well as
    in art.
    

    PARADOX POWER AND CONSUMPTION
    How do artists address contradiction, ambiguity, From politics to mass media, the theme of power
    and truth? pervades daily life and is reflected in the ideas
    and concerns of artists.
    CONSUMPTION
    How does art address the idea of consumption? PROTEST
    How do artists question commonly held How do artists engage politics, inequality, and
    assumptions about commerce, mass media, and the many conflicts that besiege the world today?
    consumer society? How do artists use their work to discuss or
    oppose misery, turmoil, and injustice?
    ECOLOGY
    How is our understanding of the natural world ROMANCE
    deeply cultural? What role do intuition, emotion, fantasy, and
    escapism play in art?
    HUMOR
    How do artists use irony, goofiness, satire, and SPIRITUALITY
    sarcasm in their work? Can an artwork be funny How does art address the idea of spirituality?
    and critical at the same time? Do artists always How do artists working today reveal and
    take themselves seriously? question commonly held assumptions about
    faith, belief, meditation, and religious symbols?
    IDENTITY
    How does art address the idea of identity? How STORIES
    do artists working today reveal and question How do artists tell stories in their work? How
    commonly held assumptions about stereotypes, does art reflect and reveal narrative traditions?
    self-awareness, portaiture, and what it means to How does the art of today record and describe
    be an artist? the world around us?

    LOSS & DESIRE STRUCTURES


    How do artworks embody emotion? How do How do we organize life? What are the ways in
    artists express longing, love, and human which we capture knowledge and attempt greater
    experience in their work? understanding?

    MEMORY TIME
    How does memory function? What is history? How do artists evoke and transform time in their
    How do artists frame the past in their work? work? Can a work of art be timeless? How does
    contemporary art relate to art of the ancient past,
    PLACE to nature, and to the rhythms of the life?
    How does art address the idea of place? How do
    artists working today reveal and question
    commonly held assumptions about land, home,
    and national identity?

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