Discussion

Explanation:

Option 4 is literally correct. But the word “fossil” in this case has been used to draw an analogy between the physical world and “dead” art. Therefore the interpretation of the word “fossil” in this instance is incorrect.
Option 5 can be implied from, “As an art movement slips into temporal perspective, it ceases to be a living organism - becoming, rather, a fossil. This is not to say it becomes useless or uninteresting. Just as a scientist can reconstruct the life of a prehistoric environment from the messages codified into the structure of a fossil, so can an artist decipher whole webs of intellectual and creative possibility from the recorded structure of a ‘dead’ art movement.”
Hence, the correct answer is option 5.

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