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Web art has been "accepted" by traditional institutions, critics and thus the general public because it "fits" into our culture

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问题     Web art has been "accepted" by traditional institutions, critics and thus the general public because it "fits" into our culture and society, a society which has been groomed by postmodern ideals. Thus web art has not been subjected to "cultural limbo" as photography had for a century and a half by the constraints imposed by modernism.
    The postmodernists embraced the idea that technology, especially reproductive mediums, would radically affect the perception of art. The rejection of traditional notions created a strong affinity towards new genres for postmodernists. The support given by postmodernism to technological art forms has played an important role in redefining the value of web-based mediums today.
    The nature of web-based art facilitates this acceptance. The infinite reproducibility of the web art form reaffirms postmodern deconstruction of the "unique existence" of the art object and thus its exuded authority and authentic value. Web art has crossed the boundaries of what was once the "unreproducibility of the aesthetic original" and introduced a world that exists free from the concept of either the original or the copy. Web art also elevates the viewer to the level of interactive creator and thus promote the process of artistic realization. Because of the interactive nature of web art, the viewer has ultimately replaced the artist, thus confirming Barthes’ theory of "death of the author".
    The existence of web art in a non-physical, temporal realm also contributes to the rejection of the modern value of the spatial art object. The audience understands the virtuality of this technology as it pervades daily life on the net. Finally, the inherent makeup of the Internet as a catalog of information, coded language, and raw data, allows web art to present art as text and equally text as art. The limitless interchangeability of text and web art constitutes the revelation of postmodern theorists that the meaning of art can only be found through the relationship of the "world outside the text that is nevertheless inscribed in the text".
    Postmodern ideals set forth the current society’s methodology of valuing art and thus new art forms. It is because web art so accurately mirrors the canons of postmodernism, that it is such a favored form in the art world. Web art’s acceptance and popularity exist because it is a concept as much as it is a "tool". Web art, like photography, is an instrument reiterating the values posed by postmodernists in order to reject traditional mediums. The opposition of tradition powers our society forward to seek out new ways to explain old ideas and explore new questions that pervade our environment.
Which of the following is true according to Paragraph 2?
选项 A、Postmodernists believe that web-based mediums will influence the perception of art.
B、Traditional notions of art have been completely discarded.
C、Web-based mediums are defined by postmodernists.
D、Traditional art has been greatly left behind by the technology.
答案A
解析 细节题。由题干定位到第二段。首句提到，后现代主义者认为，科学技术，尤其是再生媒体，将从根本上影响人们对艺术的看法。结合上文可知，此处的“再生媒体(reproductive mediums)”指的就是“网络媒体(web-based mediums)”。A项是原文的同义转述，因此为正确答案。B项“传统艺术观念已经完全被抛弃”，C项“网络媒体的定义是由后现代主义者界定的”均属于对原文的过度推断。D项“传统艺术已经被科技远远抛在后面"。原文没有提及。
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