Editing Contemporary art (section)

==Themes==
[[File:Irbid-Jordan-Nida Alhamzeh-029.jpg|alt=Irbid, Jordan, "We are Arabs. We are Humans"|thumb|Irbid, Jordan, "We are Arabs. We are Humans". [[Inside Out Project|Inside Out]] is a global participatory art project, initiated by the French photographer [[JR (artist)|JR]], an example of [[Street art]].]]
Contemporary artwork is characterised by diversity: diversity of material, of form, of subject matter, and even time periods. It is "distinguished by the very lack of a uniform organizing principle, ideology, or - ism"<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.art21.org/learn/tools-for-teaching/on-contemporary-art/contemporary-art-in-context |title=Contemporary Art in Context. (2016). Retrieved December 11, 2016 |access-date=December 12, 2016 |archive-date=December 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221093535/http://www.art21.org/learn/tools-for-teaching/on-contemporary-art/contemporary-art-in-context |url-status=live }}</ref> that is seen in many other art periods and movements. Contemporary art does not have one, single objective or point of view, so it can be contradictory and open-ended. There are nonetheless several common themes that have appeared in contemporary works, such as [[identity politics]], the body, [[globalization]] and migration, [[technology]], contemporary society and culture, time and memory, and institutional and political critique.<ref>Robertson, J., & McDaniel, C. (2012). ''Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980'' (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.</ref>