Conversations with Complicit! Artists To-date
What the Artists Were Asked
Ask Yourself
Words & Phrases
Do-It-Yourself Challenges
Xhibition Guide
UVa Art Museum Education Page
Writer's Eye 2006

The following words and phrases are associated with the exhibition Complicit! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture.

Define these words/ideas.

How do they related to the artwork you have seen in the exhibition or on-line?

How do they relate to the conversations with the artists in the podcast interviews?

aesthetics
agenda
ambiguity
artifice
assembledge
autonomy
avant-guarde
combine
complex
complicit
conceptual
consumerism
contemporary
content
contradiction
culture
derivative
ennui
form
heterodox
humor
hybrid
icons/ cultural icons
imagination
mainstream
man-made materials
mass culture
mass material culture
mass media
media
modernism
mythic
narrative
pop culture
postmodernism
remixing
symbols/ symbolic media
transcend/ transcendence
transgressive
value/ values

Phrases

an artist's studio practice
cultural legacy
harbingers of change
historical lineage
personal fulfillment
social improvement