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The civilization of Llhuros; an exhibition of artifacts from the recent excavations of Vanibo, Houndee, Draikum, and other sites.

Title
The civilization of Llhuros; an exhibition of artifacts from the recent excavations of Vanibo, Houndee, Draikum, and other sites.
Author
Daly, Norman.
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. [Office of University Publications, Cornell University, 1972, c1971]

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Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art
Description
55 p. illus.; 29 cm.
Summary
"Daly has worked on his fictitious civilization for almost forty years. It was first exhibited in 1972 at the Andrew Dickson White Art Museum of Cornell University. The original exhibition consisted of over 150 objects and traveled to several museums in the United States. In 1974 it was included in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum<U+2019>s exhibition Projekt '74 in Cologne, Germany. Daly's project was perhaps one of the first undertakings of this nature, representing a growing loss of faith in the objectivity of history. The artist's mythical civilization can be seen as a critique of history as political or moral propaganda. Taking the form of a history museum display, 'The Civilization of Llhuros' used faux artifacts, documents, photographs, audiotapes, and explanatory texts to present an entire civilization that only existed in the artist's imagination... Daly<U+2019>s 'Civilization of Llhuros' encourages us to question the veracity of the historical narratives we are presented in museum displays." -- Johnson Museum of Art website [https://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/norman-daly-civilization-llhuros-and-other-works].
Subject
  • Daly, Norman > Exhibitions
  • Daly, Norman > Interviews
  • Daly, Norman
  • Decorative arts > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Interviews
Note
  • Catalogue of a "pseudoanthropological" exhibition "organized by the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University ... 1972." Llhuros was conceived and its artifacts executed by N. Daly.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
LCCN
^^^72188881^//r84
OCLC
  • 363834
  • SCSB-10351202
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library