Q19 - All art criticism

[pistachio2014]

Hi, I'm still having trouble understanding this question. Can I infer from the last sentence of the stimulus that critics who evaluate in a purely aesthetic sense (inadvertently) end up endorsing the politics of the artist because he/she doesn't express political disapproval (author takes a lack of disapproval as an endorsement)? Thus, if he/she endorses the work then he/she can never reject the work, hence choice (E). Thank you.

[cyruswhittaker]

I don't think that the endorsement has to occur because of a lack of disapproval, and I'm not sure where you are forming that relationship.

An endorsement would seem to imply this, but "because" adds a causal element to the relationship.

Basically, the passage states, in the last sentence, that art critics who analyze a work purely on aesthetic grounds end up endorsing the artist's politics. Well, if this is true, then it means that those critics can't at the same time reject the politics, as that would form a contradiction. Thus (E) must be true.