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Art historian: Support Great works of art have often elicited outrage when first presented; in Europe, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring prompted a riot, and Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe elicited outrage and derision. ███ █████ ██ ██ █████ ████ ███ ██ █████ █████████ ██ ██████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ██████ █████ ██ ███████ █████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ██████ ████ █████████
Summary
The author concludes that we should use public funds to support works of art that many people find shocking.
Why?
Because great works of art have often been shocking, which shows that art can be shocking.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that public funds should go toward producing works of art.
The author assumes that the shocking nature of an artwork does not justify withholding public funding of that art.
10.
Which one of the following ██ ██ ██████████ ████ ███ ███ ███████████ ████████ ████████ ██ █████ ███ ███ ██████████ ██ ██ ████████ ██████
a
Most art is █████████
Not necessary, because even if less than most art is shocking, we know there still exists great art, and public funding of art can still be justified for the goal of producing great art.
b
Stravinsky and Manet ████████ ██████ ███████ ███ █████ ████
Not necessary, because the author only used Stravinsky and Manet as examples of artists who produced great art that was shocking. The author did not rely on them as examples of artists who were publicly funded.
c
Art used to ██ ████ ████████ ████ ██ █████████ ███
Not necessary, because the author doesn’t rely on a comparison between modern and older art. The author cites to older art for the point that there can be great art that is shocking.
d
Public funds should ███████ ████
Necessary, because if it were not true — if public funds should NOT support art — then we no longer have any reason to believe public funds should support works of art that people find shocking. (D) describes the author’s baseline assumption that art is an appropriate thing to be funded by the public.
e
Anything that shocks ██ ████
Not necessary, because the author only cited to certain great works of art that happened to be shocking. The author never suggested that the shocking quality of those works was sufficient to make them great.