LSAT 118 – Section 1 – Question 10

LSAT 118 - Section 1 - Question 10

December 2004

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT118 S1 Q10
+LR
Point at issue: disagree +Disagr
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
86%
165
B
5%
156
C
4%
159
D
1%
157
E
4%
161
131
142
154
 +Medium 148.411 +SubsectionMedium

Rachel: Though contemporary artists are pleased to be free of the constraints that bound their predecessors, this freedom has caused a decline in the quality of art. Great art can be produced only when artists struggle to express themselves within externally imposed boundaries.

James: People have always been critical of the art of their own time. They forget all but the greatest art from past eras. Since inferior contemporary artworks have not yet been forgotten, people today mistakenly think that contemporary art is generally inferior to earlier art.

Speaker 1 Summary
Rachel concludes that artists’ freedom from the constraints of their predecessors has caused a decline the quality of art. This is because great art requires that artists struggle against external constraints.

Speaker 2 Summary
James concludes that there hasn’t been a decline in the quality of art. People only think there’s been a decline, because people only remember the best artwork of the past, and have not get forgotten the inferior artwork of the present.

Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree about whether art today is worse than the art of the past. Rachel thinks today’s art is worse. James thinks it’s not worse.

A
contemporary art is of lower quality than earlier art
This is a point of disagreement. Rachel thinks contemporary art is worse than the art of the past. James calls that belief a mistake.
B
contemporary artists are bound by the same constraints as their predecessors
James doesn’t express an opinion about this. He doesn’t discuss constraints or whether the artists of today have the same constraints as artists of the past.
C
great art is produced only when an artist struggles against limitations
James doesn’t express an opinion. He doesn’t discuss requirements for great art or the struggles of artists.
D
inferior art from past eras is generally forgotten
Rachel doesn’t express an opinion. She doesn’t discuss inferior art of the past and whether people remember it.
E
one can correctly assess the quality of art only if it was produced in past eras
The speakers share the same opinion about this. Both assess the quality of contemporary art. This suggests they both think that we can correctly assess the quality of modern art.

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