陈虎平36套 exercise5 有没有帮忙分析下文章的结构

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The belief that art originates in intuitive rather than
rational faculties was worked out historically and
philosophically in the somewhat wearisome volumes of
Benedetto Croce, who is usually considered the originator
5 of a new aesthetic. Croce was, in fact, expressing a very
old idea. Long before the Romantics stressed intuition
and self-expression, the frenzy of inspiration was
regarded as fundamental to art, but philosophers had
always assumed it must be controlled by law and by the
10 intellectual power of putting things into harmonious order.
This general philosophic concept of art was supported by
technical necessities. It was necessary to master certain
laws and to use intellect in order to build Gothic
cathedrals, or set up the stained glass windows of
15 Chartres. When this bracing element of craftsmanship
ceased to dominate artists‘ outlook, new technical
elements had to be adopted to maintain the intellectual
element in art. Such were linear perspective and anatomy.
(156 words)

总感觉文章后面都在说art可以被理性给控制，不就和第一句话的意义
相反了么？

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就是反对以前的观点的短文啊，第一句老观点，被反驳

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天薇凉 发表于 2014-8-13 23:01
就是反对以前的观点的短文啊，第一句老观点，被反驳

“Croce was, in fact, expressing a very old idea”这句话的意思是反驳了第一句话是么？我理解成“他表达了一个很古老的观点”，所以这个观点很久前就存在，因此应该上下段的思路应该一样...

应该是应为old了，所以下面就开始反驳了第一句话？

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411123879 发表于 2014-8-13 23:13
“Croce was, in fact, expressing a very old idea”这句话的意思是反驳了第一句话是么？我理解成“他表 ...

是的呀，

这是GRE文章中很常见的写法