首页
登录
职称英语
The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and ar
The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and ar
游客
2024-10-01
19
管理
问题
The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photograph’s fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defence of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting.
Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselves—anything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art. It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art.
Photographers’ disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photography’s prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the 1960’s. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist painting—that is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matisse—presupposes highly developed skills of looking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography, like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than about art.
Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic Modernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activity—in short, an art. [br] "The concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism" (Para. 2) can be best described as
选项
A、objective.
B、mechanical.
C、superficial.
D、paradoxical.
答案
D
解析
细节题。第3段第3句中with的宾语表明Pop painting具有dismissal of abstract art的特点,选项A是对该特点的近义改写,因此选项A为本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3782082.html
相关试题推荐
SciencewriterTomStandagedrawsaptparallelsbetweenthetelegraphandt
Theearliestcontroversiesabouttherelationshipbetweenphotographyandar
Theearliestcontroversiesabouttherelationshipbetweenphotographyandar
Theearliestcontroversiesabouttherelationshipbetweenphotographyandar
Accordingtothenews,therelationshipbetweenU.SandIranhadbeenhostilefo
Accordingtothenews,therelationshipbetweenU.SandIranhadbeenhostilefo
WhydidSusanandMichaelinterviewchildrenagedbetween9and11?[br][origi
WhydidSusanandMichaelinterviewchildrenagedbetween9and11?[originaltex
Whatistherelationshipbetweenthetwospeakers?[br][originaltext]W:Whydo
Whatistherelationshipbetweenthetwospeakers?[originaltext]W:Whydoyout
随机试题
Asoccerrefereesuspended(吊销执照)forscoringagoalwhiletakingchargeof
WhileAshopping,peoplesometimescan’thelpBpersuadingintoCbuyingsomething
HeseemsnottohavegraspedwhatImeant,_______greatlyupsetsme.A、itB、whic
根据《生产安全事故报告和调查处理条例》的相关规定,施工单位负责人接到生产安全事故
患者从事蓄电池生产多年,近来头昏,无力,肌肉关节酸痛,记忆力减退,时有便秘,腹部
相关系数的大小范围为()。A.0和1之间 B.+1和-1之间 C.-1和0
支撑桁架中斜杆bC采用单角钢截面,最适合的截面形式为?( )A、1∟63×5,
一住店客人未付房钱即想离开旅馆去车站。旅馆服务员揪住他不让走,并打报警电话。客人
关于地役权,下列表述正确的是()。A.当事人应当采用书面形式订立地役权合同 B
当专项风险等级为()级且无法降低时,必须提高现场防护标准,并视情况开展第三方施
最新回复
(
0
)