On a long-term basis

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1. Does the blue sentence below imply "the general tendency in the art of that time to produce extremist, stereotyping, tragic, and sentimental representations of AIDS"?

2. Does "living with the syndrome on a long-term basis" mean "living with AIDS for long periods of time"?

Context:

Set against this sort of misrepresentation, as well as the general tendency in art at the time to produce AIDS-related work that was thought to go too far in the opposite direction, stereotyping its subjects in tragic or sentimentalised terms, Kaye’s piece humanised the person with HIV/AIDS and addressed the complexities and realities of actually living with the syndrome on a long-term basis.

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1. Does the blue sentence below imply "the general tendency in the art of that time to produce extremist, stereotyping, tragic, and sentimental representations of AIDS"?

Although "go too far in the opposite direction" suggests movement towards an extreme, I don't think it suggests extremism in this context; the sentence below describes an exaggerated representation in art of people with AIDS; extremism in the context of AIDS would be advocating the forcible quarantine of all AIDS patients or the reallocation of funding to find the cure for AIDS at the expense of all other medical research. I wouldn't use "extremist," but I would use "exaggerated".

"Stereotyping" would be better expressed here with the adjective stereotypical.

Again, the sentence below doesn't describe representations of AIDS, but representations in art of people with AIDS. There's a significant difference. I also think that it isn't implying anything, it's stating it outright.

The sentence below describes the general tendency in art at that time to produce exaggerated, stereotypical, tragic and sentimentalized representations of people with AIDS.

2. Does "living with the syndrome on a long-term basis" mean "living with AIDS for long periods of time"?

Yes. A long period of time.

"...living with the syndrome for a long period of time."

Context:
Set against this sort of misrepresentation, as well as the general tendency in art at the time to produce AIDS-related work that was thought to go too far in the opposite direction, stereotyping its subjects in tragic or sentimentalised terms, Kaye’s piece humanised the person with HIV/AIDS and addressed the complexities and realities of actually living with the syndrome on a long-term basis.

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