OFFICIAL EXPLANATION QUESTION #1

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The correct answer to this question will be true based on the passage. With this in mind, (A) is the correct answer. If this performance art project is an "example of" Modernist art, it must be the case that at least some performance art is Modernist in origin. Although (B) may be true in the real world, it is not an implication of the passage. The author says nothing about the political dimensions of the performance. Consider (C) carefully: critics do comment on this aspect of this project's shock value, but nowhere is it suggested that critics prefer visual art to performance art. This passage doesn't make any assessment of how "powerful" the message of the piece is, only suggesting that finding out how the artwork is made is a powerful experience, so (D) is incorrect. Choice (E) is too vague; the artist described here may suffer more physically, but that doesn't translate to a generalized statement that performance artists suffer more than artists of other genres.