In his analysis of how photographic art transformed skyscrapers as symbols of corporate power into a "skyline," Sam Bass Warner, Jr.argues that turning symbols of corporate power into objects of art…
A)was a valuable service that the corporations provided for urban areas.
B)was an unavoidable consequence of the increasing size of corporations in the early twentieth century.
C)deflected attention away from the source of urban problems in the slum and pacified those victimized by them.
D)provided the opportunity to focus on the real sources of urban problems and move toward solving them.

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Warner argues that by turning skyscrapers into objects of art, attention was deflected away from the real sources of urban problems (such as slums) and pacified those victimized by them, rather than providing a solution for the problems.

In His Analysis of How Photographic Art Transformed Skyscrapers as Symbols