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.
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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
10. In the context in which it appears, "ambivalent " most
nearly means
○A subversive
○B unambiguous
○C equivocal
○D disreputable
○E contradictory
ambivalent我查了韦氏词典,: simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action
2 a : continual fluctuation (as between one thing and its opposite) b : uncertainty as to which approach to follow
为什么选equivocal呢