December 2009 LSAT
Section 5
Question 21
Which one of the following inferences about the portrait of Fuller does the passage most strongly support?
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Mehran on November 5, 2017
Hi @Miller, thanks for your post. Lines 11-13 support answer choice (B): "By his early twenties, Noguchi's sculptures *showed such exquisite comprehension of human anatomy* and deft conceptual realization . . ." This, coupled with the fact that Fuller (the subject) was a person, establishes answer choice (B).Answer choice (E) is not only not supported by the text of the passage, but it is arguably contradicted by it insofar as it claims that Brancusi's sculptures "did not depend on contrasts of light and shadow." The passage implies the opposite when it notes that Noguchi "pondered the fact that sculptors through the ages had relied" on shadows "for their conceptual communication." (Lines 22-25). Even though Brancusi may not have used positive-light reflecting *material,* this does not mean that Brancusi did not depend on the *contrasts* of light and shadow in his sculptures.
Hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any additional questions.
Miller on November 6, 2017
Thank you. Does "the latter's" expression in answer choice (E) refer to Brancusi?Miller on November 6, 2017
It is clear that Noguchi's work with Brancusi did depend on contrasts of light and shadow but that his later work in sculpting Fuller did not. If this is correct then my mistake was associating the sculpture of Fuller with the expression, "the latter's".