PT145.S3.P2.Q10

PrepTest 145 - Section 3 - Passage 2 - Question 10

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It is commonly assumed that even if some forgeries have aesthetic merit, no forgery has as much as an original by the imitated artist would. ███

Common belief · Forgeries can't be as good aesthetically as originals
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Conflicting fact · Art specialists can mistake a forgery for an original
This suggests that, at least aesthetically, forgeries can be as good. (Ex. Han van Meegeren's Disciples painting; forged under signatures of Jan Vermeer and thought to be one of Vermeer's best works.)
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Questions · Is forgery inherently inferior art? How can be judge forgeries as worse?
The fact that a fake can be confused for an original suggests that it's aesthetically as good.
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Lessing's answer · Lessing has an answer
We'll get the answer in the next paragraph.
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Lessing's answer · Forgeries are worse, but not because of aesthetics
Forgeries lack vision and originality, which are some of the qualities by which we judge art.
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Author's agreement with Lessing · van Meegeren's fake lacked historical significant
It didn't involve origination of the artistic techniques that Vermeer was known for. So, it was worse.
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10.

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lovers of a ███████ █████ ██████████████ ██████ █ ███████ █████ ████████ ██ ███████ █████ █████████ ██ █ ███████████ █████████

This doesn’t involve anyone being duped about the origin of something.

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b

art historians extol ███ ████ ██ █ ████████████ ███████ ██ ██████████ █████ ██ ██ ██████████ ████ ███ ███████ █████ ████ ████ ████████ ████ ███ ██████████ ███████

This doesn’t involve anyone being duped about the origin of something. Historians may recognize that the painter was alive more recently than thought, but this doesn’t mean the paintings were made by a different person.

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c

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This is the only answer that suggests someone was duped about the origin of something. The diners praised the food as delicious when they were under the impression that the master chef cooked it. They realize later that the master chef did not cook the food.

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d

literary critics enthusiastically ███████ █ ███ █████ █████ ███ ██████ ███████ ████ ███ ███████ ███████ ███ ████████ ██ █████████ █████████ █████ ████ ███ ███████ ███████

This doesn’t involve anyone being duped about the origin of something. In addition, it’s not clear that the critics had some belief about the meaning of the central symbols in the work.

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e

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This doesn’t involve anyone being duped about the origin of something.

3%

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