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Len Lye : a biography / Roger Horrocks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horrocks, Roger, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lye, Len, 1901-1980.
- Lye, Len.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (469 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Len Lye: A Biography tells for the first time the story of a unique, charismatic artist who was an innovator in many areas- film, kinetic sculpture, painting, photography and poetry.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- introduction
- part one sense games
- 1 The Flash
- 2 Cape Campbell
- 3 The First Sketchbook
- 4 Composing Motion
- 5 Modernism
- 6 Hei-Tiki
- 7 Sydney
- 8 Kinetic Theatre
- 9 Samoa
- 10 Deportation
- 11 Jack Ellitt
- part two 'individual happiness now'
- 12 Stoker Sculptor
- 13 Batiks
- 14 Tusalava
- 15 Jane Thompson
- 16 The Seven and Five Society
- 17 Robert Graves and Laura Riding
- 18 Mallorca
- 19 A Wedding
- 20 Peanut Vendor
- 21 A Colour Box
- 22 The Birth of the Robot
- 23 Rainbow Dance
- 24 Public and Private
- 25 Surrealism
- 26 The English Walt Disney
- 27 The World and Ourselves
- 28 Individual Happiness Now
- 29 Going to the Top
- 30 War Films
- 31 Kill or Be Killed
- part three 'free radical'
- 32 Willkie
- 33 A Rorschach Test
- 34 Ann Hindle
- 35 Paintings and Poems
- 36 Shoe of My Mind
- 37 Gracious Living with Little Money
- 38 Madison Avenue
- 39 Rhythm
- 40 Free Radicals
- 41 Going on Strike
- 42 Tangibles
- 43 Dance of the Machines
- 44 Sartorial Thrift-Shop Style
- 45 The Movement Movement
- 46 A Flip and Two Twisters
- 47 Life in the Sixties
- 48 The Snake God
- 49 Genetics
- 50 The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid
- 51 Utopias
- 52 Homes
- 53 New Plymouth
- 54 Relationships
- 55 Direct Film Apprentices
- 56 Quitting the Lot
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright Page.
- Notes:
- "Reprinted 2002"--Title page verso.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-77558-109-8
- OCLC:
- 892796003
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