Craft and StructureVery hardOverall structure of a conservation ethics text
Craft and Structure practice question
Conservators routinely remove yellowed varnish from old paintings, and the stated goal is fidelity: return the work to what the artist intended. The trouble is that intention is not a fixed deposit waiting under the grime. Some painters expected their varnish to yellow and planned their colors accordingly; others revised their works for decades. Cleaning, in such cases, does not recover a single original so much as choose among the painting's several pasts.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
- A. A practice is described, the standard justification for it is given, and a complication to that justification is raised.Correct
- B. A prediction is made, tested against data, and confirmed.
- C. A technique is explained chronologically from invention to obsolescence.
- D. Two case studies are presented and shown to have identical outcomes.
Answer: A. A practice is described, the standard justification for it is given, and a complication to that justification is raised.
The text moves: practice (restoring paintings), justification (recovering the artist's intent), complication (intent may be unrecoverable and layered). That is structure A.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. A prediction is made, tested against data, and confirmed.
- There is no prediction and no data test in the text.
- C. A technique is explained chronologically from invention to obsolescence.
- No chronology of invention or obsolescence is given.
- D. Two case studies are presented and shown to have identical outcomes.
- The varnish example is one illustration, not paired case studies.
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