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. In the
nineteenth century, photography's association with the
real world placed it in an ambivalent relation to art; late in
the twentieth century, an ambivalent relation exists
because of the Modernist heritage in art. That important
photographers 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, 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.
10. In the context in which it appears, "ambivalent " most
nearly means
A subversive
B unambiguous
C equivocal
D disreputable
E contradictory
9.Which of the following adjectives best describes
―the concept of art imposed by the triumph of
Modernism‖ as the author represents it in the last sentence?
(A) Objective
(B) Mechanical
(C) Superficial
(D) Dramatic
(E) Paradoxical
虽然我凭感觉选选对了。但是不太确定这题考的是什么？文章想问的是用什么样子的词来描述这个由现代主义的胜利所施加的艺术的概念用什么形容词描述最好？切入点是最后一句吗？艺术越好，它就越颠覆传统艺术的目标。所以是paradoxical的？作者: 刨冰888 时间: 2015-8-21 13:20:55
答案没错
第十题一开始我也错了，单凭ambivalent的意思选了contradictory，后来被人告诉我的
其实GRE的阅读选同义词和托福不一样…必须根据文章中心选…文章抑制讲的是 photography到底应不应该归为fine art，既没有明确立场说它是fine art的contradictory也没有说他是fine art，只是两派观点的debate，原文是That important
photographers are no longer willing to debate whether
photography is or is not a fine art.
因此ambivalent是说photography是一个ambiguous的存在，全文都没有明确指出到底是否是fine art。
