GRE 95年4月艺术类文章长阅读求助

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文章里出现了一堆 abstract art, 好像abstract art里面还有不同的种类，没看仔细一道题就比较难选了。
发帖问一下我现在的理解对不对
全文如下：

The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photography‘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 defense 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. 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.

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.

有问题的题是：
23. The author introduces Abstract Expressionist painters (lines 34) in order to
(A) provide an example of artists who, like serious contemporary photographers, disavowed traditionally accepted aims of modern art
(B) call attention to artists whose works often bear a physical resemblance to the works of serious contemporary photographers
(C) set forth an analogy between the Abstract Expressionist painters and classical
Modernist painters
(D) provide a contrast to Pop artists and others who created works that exemplify the Modernist heritage in art
(E) provide an explanation of why serious photography, like other contemporary visual forms, is not and should not pretend to be an art

发现 remind us of以后，比较好选了。

但是 就文中来说，应该是出现了3种不同的Art？
第二段里的Modernist heritage in art，Modernism应该都值的是第三段里的classical Modernist painting (that is, abstract art)
Pop painting 与 摄影比较类似。dismissal of abstract art
然后是题目里的这个Abstract Expressionist painters，由于顶着abstract这个词，比较难理解，之前没有理清不同art之间的关系，现在看来应该是反classical modernist art的。
LZ不信邪，查了一下维基百科，modernism里第一张图跟Abstract expressionism里的某张图是一样的。。。真的有点晕

另外，文章最后说摄影也已经发展出了a classic Modernist art 的anxieties and self-consciousness...那么问题来了，这个classic modernist是前面他们不想承认自己是art的classical modernism吗？how to understand the term "classic modernist"? QAQ

顺便想问一下像这种文中出现好多种东西，每种东西又有一堆不同的称号的题，应该怎么准确把握？这篇阅读我读了3遍才勉强理清了他们的关系（还不确定对不对）。