Len Lye: A BiographyAuckland University Press, 01.11.2013 - 440 Seiten 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. Born in New Zealand in 1901, Len Lye gained an international reputation in the arts and had friendships with many famous people&– including Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, Gertrude Stein, John Grierson, Norman McLaren, Oskar Fischinger, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Laura Riding, Stan Brakhage, and the artists of the New York School. A colorful bohemian, Lye lived in London from 1926 to 1944 (where he made highly original hand-painted films for John Grierson's GPO Film Unit), then moved to New York for the last 36 years of his life. Describing Len Lye as a "trailblazer" and a "one-man modern art movement" in Sight & Sound, Ian Francis also celebrated this superb biography as "the definitive piece of Lye scholarship." |
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part three free radical USA New Zealand | 206 |
Willkie | 211 |
A Rorschach Test | 217 |
Ann Hindle | 223 |
Paintings and Poems | 230 |
Shoe of My Mind | 238 |
Gracious Living with Little Money | 245 |
Madison Avenue | 253 |
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Kinetic Theatre | 52 |
Samoa | 57 |
Deportation | 63 |
Jack Ellitt | 68 |
part two individual happiness | 77 |
Stoker Sculptor | 79 |
Batiks | 85 |
Jane Thompson | 96 |
The Seven and Five Society | 101 |
Robert Graves and Laura Riding | 107 |
Mallorca | 114 |
A Wedding | 121 |
Peanut Vendor | 127 |
A Colour Box | 133 |
The Birth of the Robot | 142 |
Rainbow Dance | 148 |
Public and Private | 153 |
Surrealism | 159 |
The English Walt Disney | 165 |
The World and Ourselves | 171 |
Individual Happiness Now | 175 |
Going to the Top | 184 |
War Films | 189 |
Kill or Be Killed | 198 |
Rhythm | 258 |
Free Radicals | 263 |
Going on Strike | 268 |
Tangibles | 273 |
Dance of the Machines | 280 |
Sartorial ThriftShop Style | 291 |
The Movement Movement | 300 |
A Flip and Two Twisters | 305 |
Life in the Sixties | 315 |
The Snake God | 324 |
Genetics | 330 |
The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid | 337 |
Utopias | 348 |
Homes | 352 |
New Plymouth | 360 |
Relationships | 367 |
Direct Film Apprentices | 371 |
Quitting the Lot | 376 |
Epilogue | 381 |
Acknowledgements | 389 |
Endnotes | 392 |
Tusalava | 424 |
430 | |
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