Dia (Center for the Arts) and the dinosaur.

From: C: International Contemporary Art | Date: March 22, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

The spectatorship of sculpture is akin to a branch of Ichnology, the science of footprints. Text, in imitation of animal sign (derived from cuneiform trackways in mud and snow), is the memory of travel. The American Museum has a dinosaur trackway, a trail of footprints in stone excavated from the bed of a river in Texas. Inlaid on the floor near this prehistoric text is a path for the museum visitor, a metal cladogram, a family tree of sorts that branches with the evolution of shared derived physical characteristics. To follow this road is to be lead into small box canyons of ...

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