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The List Of Claims
In MBT questions, we can just treat the stimulus as a big ol’ list of rules – 10 commandments style – any one of which could hold the key to the correct answer. Here’s the list:
- All art criticism is political.
- All art has political implications.
- 1 is true because 2 is true.
- Critics who address politics in art are engaged in political discourse.
- Critics who try to focus narrowly on aesthetics always ignore the work’s political implications.
- Critics who try to focus narrowly on aesthetics always endorse the artist’s politics.
- It’s possible the critics in 6 are endorsing the artist’s politics by accident.
The answer really could come from anywhere. Sometimes you can combine two of the claims to make a valid inference, in which case that inference will likely show up in the right answer, but we can’t do that here.
Analysis by MichaelWright
19.
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a
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b
Critics who are ███████████ ██████ ██████ ███████ ██████ ██████████ █████████ ██ ████
c
Art that makes ██ █████ ██████ ██ █████████ █████████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ █████ ███████ ███ █████████ ██████████
d
A political critique ██ █ ████ ██ ███ ███ ████ █████ ████ ███ █████ ████ ██ ████████ ██ ████ █████
e
Art criticism that ██ ████████ ██ ████████ █ ████ ██ ██████ █████████ ███████ █████ ████ ██ █████████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ██████ █████ ████ ██ █████ ███████