SECTION 3Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its cont
SECTION 3
Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
Through the very symbolism of popular culture that molded, defined and
contained women in their role as the subservient half of society, the artist
Alexis Hunter used the techniques of advertising to subvert and question these
Line hitherto accepted norms. Full of irony and piquant wit, her art centered on
(5) subverting the male-dominated atmosphere now all but vanished in the visual
arts-a fact evidenced by the current prominence of fellow feminist Judy
Chicago-and critics rejected this early work for fear of its inner suppressed
violence. In the early 1980s Hunter withdrew, like many of her
contemporaries, from such an overtly political forum, partly due to doubts about
(10) the efficacy of didactic political art to execute change outside the liberal
chattering classes, and partly because of her awakening interest in psychology
and psychoanalysis and the desire for greater self-expression. In a decade where
it seemed possible to begin to take for granted certain social freedoms for
women, it became more important to examine deeper, more irrational fears. In
(15) abandoning the project of defining women's identities for male audiences, the
aim of new feminist art suddenly became the production of a concept of women
that women themselves might consume.
According to the passage, feminist art-production in the 1980's was typified by which of the following?
A.an open liberality toward social freedoms
B.a rejection of openly political art
C.a male-dominated perspective
D.less effective didactic art
E.more irrational fears than in art of previous decades