Art that Moves - The Work of Len Lye (Paperback)

First published in 2009, this lively art book will be re-released in 2015 alongside a new edition of the biography - as the art and life of Len Lye continue to fascinate readers in New Zealand and around the world. ""Kinetic art is the first new category of art since prehistory"", ex-pat New Zealand artist Len Lye boldly claimed in an essay in 1964. In Art that Moves: The Work of Len Lye, Roger Horrocks - author of a best-selling biography of Lye - explores what Lye meant by this, and how his own work in sculpture and film bore it out. ""My book is about an important artist and a big idea, Len Lye's idea that movement could become the basis for new forms of art. . . He believed that only a few of the possibilities of movement had so far been tapped. This book aims to explore what the world of art - and the world in general - may have looked like through the eyes of an artist whose passionate interest was 'the mystery of motion."" - Roger Horrocks. The well-illustrated book also includes a DVD containing a short documentary by Shirley and Roger Horrocks alongside brilliant footage from Lye's films and of his sculptures in motion. In this book Len Lye's art moves again - alert and alive.

General

Imprint:	Auckland University Press
Country of origin:	New Zealand
Release date:	2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Roger Horrocks
Dimensions:	238 x 193 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	140
ISBN-13:	978-1-86940-422-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Sculpture Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Individual film directors, film-makers Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Electronic & video art Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General Promotions
LSN:	1-86940-422-X
Barcode:	9781869404222

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