News Archive
‘Artifacts’ of Lost Civilization Are On Display at Cornell
The Ithaca Journal | February 12,1972
They Unveil Artistic ‘Put-Ons’ At Art Institute
Akron Beacon Journal | September 15, 1972
The Fun Is In The Fakery
The Akron Beacon Journal | Akron, Ohio | September 17, 1972
Artist’s Hoax Acclaimed
The Ithaca Journal | September 21, 1972
Dehumanized ‘Art’
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | November 4, 1972
Cornell Hoaxer’s World Too Close For Comfort
The Sunday Press | Binghamton. NY | November 12, 1972
The Imagined Primitive Kingdom of Llhuros
Public Opinion | Chambersburg, PA | November 16, 1972
Cornellian’s Parable Draws Charge of ‘Dirty Old Man’
Star-Gazette Sunday Telegram | Elmira, NY | November 21, 1972
‘Discoveries’ Of Culture On Display
The Troy Record | January 9, 1973
Honda Packing Crate Finds Place In Art
Indianapolis News | October 28, 1973
IMA To Feature “Llhuros” Exhibit
Indianapolis Star | October 28, 1973
Satire On ‘Discoveries’
Louisville Courier-Journal & Times | November 11, 1973
Llhuros Place in the Mind,…Not Entirely Fictitious
Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin Evening Press | January 16, 1974
Art Relics of a Non-Existent People
San Francisco Examiner | April 25, 1974
Scholarly Articles
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: The First Multimedia Presentation in the Genre of Archaeological Fiction
by Norman Daly with Beauvais Lyons
Originally published in Leonardo, Vol. 24, No. 3 ©1991 M.I.T. Press
Scholarly Reviews
The Civilization of Llhuros
Kenneth Evett on Art
The New Republic, February 12, 1972
Norman Daly at Cornell
Thomas W. Leavitt
Art in America | March-April 1972
Projekt 74: Cologne
Kenneth Evett on Art
The New Republic, 1974
Review Excerpts
Review Excerpts
Following the first installation at Cornell in 1972, Llhuros was exhibited in several other U.S. venues. These are some curated excerpts of reviews from 1972-1974.
Viewers Weigh-In on Llhuros
Exhibition visitors comment on Llhuros, Roberson Center for Science and Art, Binghamton, New York, 1974.