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(B) summarizing the main points of several recent historical studies and assessing their value.

(C) establishing a chronological sequence and arguing for its importance

(D) comparing and contrasting women's political activities before and after the French Revolution

(E) reexamining a long-held point of view and isolating its strengths and weaknesses.

Art historians' approach to French Impressionism has changed significantly in recent years.

While a decade ago Rewald's History of Impressionism, which emphasizes Impressionist painters stylistic innovations, was unchallenged, the literature on impressionism has now become a kind of ideological battlefield, in which more attention is paid to the subject matter of the paintings, and to the social and moral issues raised by it, than to their style. Recently, politically charged discussions that address the impressionists' unequal treatment of men and women and the exclusion of modern industry and labor from their pictures have tended to crowd out the stylistic analysis favored by Rewald and his followers. In a new work illustrating this trend, Robert L. Herbert dissociates himself from formalists whose preoccupation with the stylistic features of impressionist painting has, in Herbert's view, left the history out of art history; his aim is to restore impressionist paintings "to their sociocultural context. However, his arguments are not finally persuasive.

21. Which one of the following best expresses the main point of the passage?

(A) The style of impressionist paintings has only an indirect relation to their subject matter.

(B) The approach to impressionism that is illustrated by Herbert's recent book is inadequate.

(C) The historical context of impressionist paintings is not relevant to their interpretation.

(D) impressionism emerged from a historical context of ideological conflict and change.

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