1972 Look for the Red Layer Robert Ascher, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology Cornell University This essay was first published in the 1972 Exhibit Catalog The Civilization of Llhuros Kenneth Evett on Art The New Republic, February 12, 1972 Newsweek – Charles Michener, Senior editor for cultural affairs February 28, 1972 Marilyn Rivchin | A.D. […]
Kenneth Evett on art Projekt ’74: Cologne When the venerable Biennale de Venezia temporarily collapsed under the pressures of inflation, installation problems and Italianate dissensions, Projekt ’74, though not planned to do so, became for this summer the main European showplace for a display of the latest art models produced in the automobile-enslaved societies of […]
Thomas W. Leavitt Art in America March-April 1972 Norman Daly at Cornell Recently “excavated” artifacts, ritual objects, architectural fragments, scientific instruments as well as poetry chants from the strange culture of Llhuros are featured in an exhibition at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell University. The display consists of over one hundred […]
Kenneth Evett on Art The Civilization of Llhuros February 12, 1972 Norman Daly is the artist. The show is called “The Civilization of Llhuros.” It begins as a spoof of almost everything current in art and anthropology and it ends, possibly, as high art. “The Civilization of Llhuros” opened recently at Cornell’s Andrew Dickson White […]
Robert Ascher Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology Cornell University, 1972 Look for the red layer under the blacktop parking lot in the shopping plaza.Lord Carnarvon had financed the search for Tut, the teenage Egyptian Pharaoh. He was there when the tomb was opened, and he was one of the first to view its contents. Several […]
Norman Daly and Beauvais Lyons “The Civilization of Llhuros is a work of fiction presented as a ‘real’ ancient culture for archaeological, anthropological and aesthetic study with an invitation to the viewer to share with the artist common appraisals of some human experiences….” Originally published in Leonardo, Vol. 24, No. 3 (©1991 ISAST) pp. 265-271 […]