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(1) The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photograph’s fidelity to a
(1) The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photograph’s fidelity to a
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(1) The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photograph’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 defence 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.
(2) 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. They 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 It 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.
(3) 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.
(4) 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.
At present, many serious photographers________.
选项
A、are struggling to establish photography as a fine art
B、claim to be making works of art by witnessing events
C、proclaim that their works have nothing to do with art
D、agree that photography is as worthy an art as painting
答案
C
解析
细节题。题干中的at present表明本题针对摄影师现在的情况,第1段说的是过去摄影师对摄影的态度,第2段说的是现在摄影师对摄影的态度,由此可见,本题答案应该在第2段中寻找。选项C与该段第3句中except to后的内容意思相近。因此选项C为本题答案。本题四个选项都有来自原文的词句,很具干扰性。选项A和D来自首段,但都是摄影师过去对摄影的态度,不符合题干中的at present,因此不正确;第2段第2句破折号后的anything but…表明现在摄影师认为摄影不是创作艺术作品,选项B的意思与该句相反,因此选项B也不正确。
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