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1、www.sharewithu.comExercise21Nevelsonsays,―Ihavealwayswantedtoshowtheworldthatartiseverywhere,exceptthatithastopassthroughacreativemind.‖Usingmostlydiscardedwoodenobjectslikepackingcrates,brokenpiecesoffurniture,andabandonedarchitecturalornaments,allofwhich
2、shehashoardedforyears,sheassemblesarchitecturalconstructionsofgreatbeautyandpower.Creatingveryfreelywithnosketches,shegluesandnailsobjectstogether,paintsthemblack,ormorerarelywhiteorgold,andplacestheminboxes.Theseassemblages,walls,evenentireenvironmentscre
3、ateamysterious,almostawe-inspiringatmosphere.Althoughshehasdeniedanysymbolicorreligiousintentinherworks,theirthree-dimensionalgrandeurandeventheirtitles,suchasSkyCathedralandNightCathedral,suggestsuchconnotations.(124words)1.Whichofthefollowingisonewayinwh
4、ichNevel-son‘sartillustrateshertheoryasitisexpressedinthefirstsentence?(A)Shesculptsinwoodratherthaninmetalorstone.(B)Shepaintshersculpturesandframestheminboxes.(C)Shemakesnopreliminarysketchesbutratherallowsthesculpturetodevelopassheworks.(D)Sheputstogeth
5、erpiecesofordinaryobjectsonceusedfordifferentpurposestomakehersculptures.(E)Shedoesnotdeliberatelyattempttoconveysymbolicorreligiousmeaningsthroughhersculpture.―Popularart‖hasanumberofmeanings,impossibletodefinewithanyprecision,whichrangefromfolkloretojunk
6、.Thepolesareclearenough,butthemiddletendstoblur.TheHollywoodWesternofthe1930‘s,forexample,haselementsoffolklore,butisclosertojunkthantohighartorfolkart.Therecanbegreattrash,justasthereisbadhighart.ThemusicalsofGeorgeGershwinaregreatpopularart,neveraspiring
7、tohighart.SchubertandBrahms,however,usedelementsofpopularmusic—folkthemes—in本文由尚友原创或整理1www.sharewithu.comworksclearlyintendedashighart.ThecaseofVerdiisadifferentone:hetookapopulargenre—bourgeoismelodramasettomusic(anaccuratedefinitionofnineteenth-centuryop
8、era)—and,withoutalteringitsfundamentalnature,transmuteditintohighart.(133words)6.TheauthorreferstoSchubertandBrahmsinordertosuggest(A)thattheirachievementsarenolesssubstantialthanthoseofVerdi(B)thattheirworks
