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Mark Dion (Paperback)
Norman 'Bryson, Lisa Graziose Corrin, Miwon Kwon
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Mark Dion (b.1961) is an American artist who, in making his art,
metamorphoses into explorer, biochemist, detective and
archaeologist. In his gallery installations around Europe and
America since the 1980s, Dion has constructed the laboratories,
experiments and museum caches of the great historical naturalists -
following in their footsteps in his own adventurous, eco-inspired
journeys to the tropics. His research and magical collections are
presented in installational still lifes that combine taxidermic
animals with lab equipment artefacts, like walk-through
Wunderkammers and life-sized cabinets of curiosity. Lias Graziose
Corrin, Director of the Williams College Museum of Art, surveys
Dion's most significant works and his ongoing investigations into
natural history's obsession with categorizing nature. Critic and
theorist Miwon Kwon talks to the artist about the interface between
ecology and culture and the phenomenon of site-specific art. Norman
Bryson, Professor of Art History at the University of California,
San Diego, makes an iconographical analysis of The Library for the
Birds of Antwerp, an indoor sculpture Dion constructed for 18 live
African finches in 1993. The artist has selected a text by novelist
Jon Berger, one of the first post-war thinkers to analyze the
position of animals in a capitalist society. The book also features
Dion's own provocative, witty and often lyrical writing on nature
and his role as an artist engaged in environmental issues.
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