35 Words to Help You Discuss Art

abject
accessible
affect
ambiguous, ambiguity
angst
banal, banality
bricolage
celebrity
collage
conceptual
contemporary
conventional
dissipate
facile
high art
impecunious
market, marketing
media
metaphor
mortality
naivete
objects
personality
profane
radical
replicas, reproduction
sacred
sublime
simulacrum
talismanic
vacuity, vacuousness
work as logo
works

I made this list while reading a critique of the young British Artist movement in general and Damien Hirst in particular. What I found astonishing about the book (whose author and title escapes me at the moment) was how vociferously he derided Mr. Hirst's art, so much so that I dare say he may have been touched by it.