Q4

[shaynfernandez]

How would someone draw the answer (C) from the quoted passage, of course it doesn't "fully reflect the complexity of Wagner's ideas" that seems like a cop-out answer, how does someone ration that the passage is or is not fully portraying someones ideas on the use of modern technology?

[timmydoeslsat]

How would someone draw the answer (C) from the quoted passage, of course it doesn't "fully reflect the complexity of Wagner's ideas" that seems like a cop-out answer, how does someone ration that the passage is or is not fully portraying someones ideas on the use of modern technology?

The passage quotes a part of Wagner in his work of Modern Architecture. The author uses this source as a way to defend modern architectural failures from being placed on the ideals of its founders.

This question is asking us for an inference about the passage from lines 20-26.

These are lines that pick up Wagner's ideas about modern creations and how they must do certain things, etc.

Past line 26, still in the second paragraph, the author is giving statements as to what can be revealed about these quotes. The author says that Wagner's quotes would seem to be the foundation of an idea that modern architecture is nothing more than the idea of aesthetics being subservient to the function.

However, the author, in the next paragraph, wakes the reader up! The author basically says whoa hang on there, Wagner was much more complex than that. This guy had visions of where the architect kept aesthetic concerns in mind while still complying the functional aspects that engineering calls for.

The other answer choices:

A) The least influence? We do not know that.

B) Most often? We do not know that.

D) Wagner stated that you had to accept the political revolutions along with the technological revolutions to be an architect that established the forms appropriate to a modern society. This does not mean Wagner, himself, was an active participant in the political revolutions.

E) It is not an overview. These quotations from Modern Architecture cannot be seen, I would argue, to talk about broadly the topic of a relationship of art and technology.

[esthertan0310]

I think the key lies in line 31 "But the picture was more complex."

This shows that the author thinks that the quotation doesn't completely reflect Wagner's idea (C).

[a8l367]

I think the key lies in line 31 "But the picture was more complex."

This shows that the author thinks that the quotation doesn't completely reflect Wagner's idea (C).

But isn't it statement rather than assumption? I mean the complexity was stated but not assumed.
Could someone clarify?