LSAT 119 – Section 2 – Question 05

LSAT 119 - Section 2 - Question 05

June 2005

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PT119 S2 Q05
+LR
Strengthen +Streng
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A
90%
164
B
3%
154
C
1%
154
D
5%
158
E
0%
161
124
136
148
 +Easier 144.676 +SubsectionEasier

Futurist: Artists in the next century will be supported largely by private patrons. Because these patrons will almost invariably be supporters of the social order—whatever it happens to be at the time—art in the next century will rarely express social and political doctrines that are perceived to be subversive of that social order.

Summarize Argument

The futurist concludes that art in the next century won’t be subversive. This is because artists in the next century will be supported by private patrons who in turn support the status quo.

Notable Assumptions

The futurist assumes that patrons won’t fund art that they find disagreeable from a social or political standpoint.

A
Art patrons tend not to support artists whose art expresses social and political views that are in opposition to their own.

Patrons won’t fund artist who create subversive art. Hence why artists likely won’t be making subversive art in the future, where artists are supported by patrons.

B
Art patrons tend to be more interested in formal artistic problems than in the social and political issues of their time.

This weakens the futurist’s argument. If patrons mostly care about formal artistic problems, then they wouldn’t mind funding subversive artists.

C
Artists are as prone to attack the contemporary social and political order in their work as they are to defend it.

We don’t care about what artists do now. We care about what they’ll do in the future.

D
Artists tend to become more critical of contemporary social and political arrangements after they are freed of their dependency on private patrons.

We need to know that most artists aren’t critical at all of social and political arrangements when they have a patron. This only tells us artists get more critical once they’re independent from patrons.

E
Art patrons tend to oppose all social change except that initiated by artists.

This weakens the futurist’s argument. In the future, the futurist doesn’t think art patrons won’t be supporting social change at all. Hence why they won’t be supporting subversive artists.

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