请教一句GRE句子的语法Photographers’disclaimersofanyinterestinmakingarttellusmoreabouttheharriedstatusofthecontemporarynotionofartthanaboutwhetherphotographyisorisnotart.Forexample,thosephotographerswhosuppo

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请教一句GRE句子的语法
Photographers’ disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried
status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art.
For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting
away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract
Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity
of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting.
其中： “they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting”,as的语法功能?exemplified 是做art的定于吗?

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“they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting”,
是做the pretensions of art的定语
我认为这里as是关系代词 代替the pretensions of art
后面是省略的定语从句
如果不细究的话 把as exemplified 看做一个短语即可 意思是 以...为例,在...中得到证明,
正如 被..,所举证的那样