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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• Rooftops is a 1935 black-and-white linocut print by Japanese American artist Isami Doi.
• It depicts a tranquil, everyday scene (a woman hanging laundry up to dry).
• Amanzi Amthatha ("The cold water takes him") is a 2001 black-and-white linocut print by South African artist Nomathemba Tana.
• It features a scene with an explicitly political point of view (a Xhosa warrior fighting British colonial rule).
• Relief printing is a technique in which an image is carved onto a printing block, covered in ink or paint, and stamped onto paper.
The student wants to contrast the subject matter of the two prints. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
The scenes depicted in both works were first carved onto a printing block, then stamped onto paper; however, one work is a linocut, while the other is a relief print.
A
The print by Tana is a black-and-white linocut; by contrast, Doi's is a relief print.
B
Tana's print expresses an explicitly political point of view, while Doi's depicts a tranquil, everyday scene.
C
Doi made Rooftops in 1935, while Tana made Amanzi Amthatha ("The cold water takes him") later, in 2001.
D