阅读36套EXE31 最后一篇，求赐教

sohiechan

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. In the nineteenth century, photography's association with the real world placed it in an ambivalent relation to art; late in the twentieth century, an ambivalent relation exists because of the Modernist heritage in art. That important photographers 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, 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.
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9.Which of the following adjectives best describes
―the concept of art imposed by the triumph of
Modernism‖ as the author represents it in the last sentence?
(A) Objective
(B) Mechanical
(C) Superficial
(D) Dramatic
(E) Paradoxical
10. In the context in which it appears, "ambivalent " most
nearly means
○A subversive
○B unambiguous
○C equivocal
○D disreputable
○E contradictory



文章最后一句不太能理解。。。所以第9题做错

还有ambivalent 不是和contradictory意思更接近吗？  第10题也不懂，同求