Essayist: Lessing contended that an art form’s medium dictates the

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Essayist: Lessing contended that an art form’s medium dictates the kind of representation the art form must employ in order to be legitimate; painting, for example, must represent simultaneous arrays of colored shapes, while literature, consisting of words read in succession, must represent events or actions occurring in sequence. The claim about literature must be rejected, however, if one regards as legitimate the imagists’ poems, which consist solely of amalgams of disparate images.

Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the essayist’s conclusion to be properly drawn?

(A) An amalgam of disparate images cannot represent a sequence of events or actions.
(B) Poems whose subject matter is not appropriate to their medium are illegitimate.
(C) Lessing was not aware that the imagists’ poetry consists of an amalgam of disparate images.
(D) All art, even the imagists’ poetry, depicts or represents some subject matter.
(E) All art represents something either as simultaneous or as successive.

warrior1991 · Answer

A is the best in the lot.

Literature must represent events or actions occurring in sequence.

if one regards as legitimate the imagists’ poems, which consist solely of amalgams of disparate images, claim about literature will be rejected.

That means somehow we have connection between disparate images and the events or actions occurring in sequence.

Option A brings out that missing link

IMO A

srikalivarapu · Answer

In the argument “Lessing agreed that any art form’s medium chosen legitimatizes the artfform example sequence of images etc etc.. concludes that pictures (haphazard) would not cut it to be called legitimate art form

If we negate choice A we would break the above argument and hence the answer A

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If we negate choice A we would break the above argument and hence the answer A

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Varunsunar · Answer

can any one else please explain whether we get this type of question in gmat

unraveled · Answer

Essayist: Lessing contended that an art form’s medium dictates the kind of representation the art form must employ in order to be legitimate; painting, for example, must represent simultaneous arrays of colored shapes, while literature, consisting of words read in succession, must represent events or actions occurring in sequence. The claim about literature must be rejected, however, if one regards as legitimate the imagists’ poems, which consist solely of amalgams of disparate images.

Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the essayist’s conclusion to be properly drawn?

(A) An amalgam of disparate images  cannot represent  a sequence of events or actions. - CORRECT. If it doesn't then conclusion breaks apart. 
(B) Poems whose subject matter is not  appropriate  to their medium are  illegitimate . - WRONG. Both highlighted text are irrelevant.
(C) Lessing was  not aware  that the imagists’ poetry consists of an amalgam of disparate images. - WRONG. Irrelevant.
(D) All art, even the imagists’ poetry,  depicts or represents some  subject matter. - WRONG. So what!! 'Or' ruins it. 
(E) All art represents something  either  as simultaneous  or  as successive. - WRONG. Similar to D.
Why painting be accepted and literature not. Are they different? So what makes them different. Drawing parallels with images' (supposedly)successions leads to an ambiguity. This ambiguity is resolved by A.

Answer A.

RICHA1189 · Answer

Essayist: Lessing contended that an art form’s medium dictates the kind of representation the art form must employ in order to be legitimate; painting, for example, must represent simultaneous arrays of colored shapes, while literature, consisting of words read in succession, must represent events or actions occurring in sequence. The claim about literature must be rejected, however, if one regards as legitimate the imagists’ poems, which consist solely of amalgams of disparate images.

My summary of the argument - 
From the essayist point of view - For Art to be legitimate, it must represent simultaneous arrays of colored shapes 
Lessing considers the imagists’ poems legitimate, which consist solely of amalgams of disparate images.
and for Literature to be legitimate , it must represent events or actions occurring in sequence.

We have to reject the claim that  for Literature to be legitimate , it must represent events or actions occurring in sequence.

Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the essayist’s conclusion to be properly drawn?

(A) An amalgam of disparate images cannot represent a sequence of events or actions.  Bridges the gap between what Lessing perceives to be legitimate and in reality what is true 
(B) Poems whose subject matter is not appropriate to their medium are illegitimate.  Not concerned about poems 
(C) Lessing was not aware that the imagists’ poetry consists of an amalgam of disparate images.  reverse of what is mentioned in the argument 
(D) All art, even the imagists’ poetry, depicts or represents some subject matter.   Not concerned about arts as a whole  
(E) All art represents something either as simultaneous or as successive.  Not concerned about arts as a whole

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