PrepTest 131 - Section 4 - Passage 3 - Question 19

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Intro topic · Sculptor Isamu Noguchi and his originality as an artist

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Focus topic · How one sculpture reveals Noguchi's originality

Possibly the main point, though too early to say for certain

Noguchi's early career · Won award for his sculptures, traveled to Paris, began working for sculptor Brancusi as stonecutter

Evidence of Noguchi's originality · Noticed that sculptors focus on use of shadow, rather than use of reflected light

Noguchi's plan · Create reflective sculpture of Buckminster Fuller using chrome-nickel steel

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Characteristics of reflective sculpture · Can only be properly viewed and understood when it reflects other objects

Analogy between reflective sculpture and calm water: difficult to see directly; instead, you see what's reflected

Further evidence of Noguchi's originality · After completing reflective sculpture, moved on to new things

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This doesn’t involve a person who developed a material that someone later uses. Also, Noguchi didn’t “market” chrome-nickel steel; he used it in his own work.

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This isn’t analogous, because here the expert skier is experimenting with a material in shoes based on the advice of a shoe-maker. But Noguchi didn’t get advice from Ford (the advice was from Fuller), and the thing Noguchi wanted to make/improve (sculpture) wasn’t in the same field as the product Ford produced (cars).

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This is the most analogous, even if you don’t think it’s a perfect analogy. (C) involves a new material used in one field that someone else uses in a different field. This is analogous to the way in which Noguchi used chrome-nickel steel — a new material in the field of car-manufacturing — and applied it to sculpture.

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The editor decides not to use the software that was suggested. This isn’t analogous, because Noguchi used what was suggested to him.

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Noguchi didn’t explore several similar materials to what was suggested to him. He used what Fuller suggested to him — chrome-nickel steel.

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