Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselves -- anything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art. It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art.
Photographers' disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photography's prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the 1960's. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist painting -- that is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matisse -- pre- supposes highly developed skills of locking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography, like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than abut art.
Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic Medernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activity -- in short, an art.
The author is concerned with ______.
A. defining the Modernist attitude toward art
B. explaining how photography emerged as a fine art
C. explaining the attitude of serious contemporary photographers toward photography as art and placing those attitudes in their historical context
D. defining the various approaches that serious contemporary photographers take toward their art and assessing the value of each of those approaches
下列对钢制管道安装工艺的基本规定叙述不正确的是()。
A. 穿墙及过楼板的管道,应加套管,管道焊缝不宜置于套管内。穿墙套管长度不得小于墙厚且穿楼板套管应高出楼面50mm
B. 管道上仪表取源部件的开孔和焊接应在管道安装前进行
C. 管道连接时,应用强力对口、加偏垫或加多层垫等方法来消除接口端面的空隙、偏斜、错口或不同心等缺陷
D. 排水管的支管与主管连接时,宜按介质流向稍有倾斜