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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
rephrasing a paragraph
Can I rephrase this complex text from a book:
Bewailing ‘each twist and turn on the evolving paradigm’ as ‘pull[ing] public art further away from the artist, and ever more into a set of programmatic requirements that effectively eviscerated the vitality of art itself ’, Eccles presents the fruits of his curatorial labour in a publication ironically entitled PLOP. Referring, of course, precisely to the modernist ‘turd in the plaza’ school of public art, against which the ‘new genres’ he was criticising were reacting, Eccles sought to enable artists nevertheless to ‘occupy the territory of “public art” while challenging, to varying degrees, many of the underlying assumptions for commissioning artists in the urban environment’.
like this:
Eccles believes that the evolving paradigm is pulling public art further away from the artist and more into a set of programmatic requirements that effectively eviscerated the vitality of art itself. And, he presents the fruits of his curatorial labour in a publication ironically entitled PLOP. By referring to a modernist school of public art that was known as ‘turd in the plaza’ (a school which all of the ‘new genres’ he used to criticize were against it) sought to enable artists to not only challenge many of the underlying assumptions for commissioning artists in the urban environment but also occupy the territory of public art.
Bewailing ‘each twist and turn on the evolving paradigm’ as ‘pull[ing] public art further away from the artist, and ever more into a set of programmatic requirements that effectively eviscerated the vitality of art itself ’, Eccles presents the fruits of his curatorial labour in a publication ironically entitled PLOP. Referring, of course, precisely to the modernist ‘turd in the plaza’ school of public art, against which the ‘new genres’ he was criticising were reacting, Eccles sought to enable artists nevertheless to ‘occupy the territory of “public art” while challenging, to varying degrees, many of the underlying assumptions for commissioning artists in the urban environment’.
like this:
Eccles believes that the evolving paradigm is pulling public art further away from the artist and more into a set of programmatic requirements that effectively eviscerated the vitality of art itself. And, he presents the fruits of his curatorial labour in a publication ironically entitled PLOP. By referring to a modernist school of public art that was known as ‘turd in the plaza’ (a school which all of the ‘new genres’ he used to criticize were against it) sought to enable artists to not only challenge many of the underlying assumptions for commissioning artists in the urban environment but also occupy the territory of public art.
Top answer
Unless you are going to simplify the argument, what is the point of paraphrasing? This mostly just moves some of the language around without making it clearer or shorter . If this is an important exercise, I would try again.
- Unless you are going to simplify the argument, what is the point of paraphrasing?
- This mostly just moves some of the language around without making it clearer or shorter .
- If this is an important exercise, I would try again.
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Unless you are going to simplify the argument, what is the point of paraphrasing? This mostly just moves some of the language around without making it clearer or shorter. If this is an important exercise, I would try again.
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The core of my query was regarding "nevertheless" in the original context. I want to know if it refers to "artists" and if I can rewrite it with "not only ... but also" as mentioned above?
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Yes, "nevertheless" refers to the artists and, yes, you can replace "nevertheless" (the word is not actually needed in the original) with "not only...but also." However, you need to insert a subject word into your new sentence (it is missing one)--either "he" or "Eccles."
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Hello, as far as I'm concerned, your paraphrased text is appropriate and written well. But I agree with those people who wrote you about some inaccuracies with the word "nevertheless" and its connection with other words. It is a good idea to learn some main issues of a qualitative
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