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Art That Moves - The Work of Len Lye (with DVD of films and sculptures) by Roger Horrocks
59.99 NZD
69.99 (14% off)
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
'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. What did he mean by this? And how does his own work in sculpture and film bear it out? Roger Horrocks, the author of the best-selling 2001 biography of Lye, explores the ...Show more
Len Lye - A Biography by Roger Horrocks
9.99 NZD
59.98 (83% off)
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
First published to acclaim in 2001, this classic biography is now back in print - as the art and life of Len Lye continue to fascinate readers in New Zealand and around the world. Len Lye: A Biography tells the story of an extraordinary New Zealander - a brilliant artist with an international career who ...Show more
Re-Inventing New Zealand - Essays on the Arts and the Media by Roger Horrocks
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Song of the Ghost in the Machine by Horrocks Roger
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Song of the Ghost in the Machine is a free-wheeling philosophical poem that emerged during the walks Roger Horrocks took over a year of his life. In this striking, one-of-a-kind work, he seeks to engage as directly as possible with the basic elements of life - the self and the body, sleeping and waking, ...Show more
Zizz! The Life and Art of Len Lye in his own words by Len Lye; Roger Horrocks
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Born in Christchurch in 1901, Len Lye was driven by a lifelong passion for motion and energy, and how to represent them in art. He moved to London, where he exhibited with Frances Hodgkins and Henry Moore, and then to New York, where he became renowned as a film-maker and kinetic sculptor. Today his wor ...Show more
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