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Fizz with zip, Wystan Curnow

Posted on March 13, 2016 by NZ Books

Zizz! The Life and Art of Len Lye In his own words with Roger Horrocks Awa Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781927249215 Back in 1965, aged 26, I walked into the Howard Wise Gallery in New York and saw the best kinetic…

Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Awa Press, Issue 113, Len Lye, Roger Horrocks, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review

A figure in motion, Stella Ramage

Posted on March 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye Roger Horrocks Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869404222 Last September I visited the blockbuster Salvador Dali exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Glamorous and edifying though it was, I…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2010, Issue 89, Len Lye, Roger Horrocks, Stella Ramage
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review

Lyetening up, Mark Amery

Posted on October 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Len Lye: A Biography Roger Horrocks Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869402472 Len Lye himself ensures his biography is a ripper of a read. While biographer Roger Horrocks studiously clocks and chronicles the events and years of a long, ever-colourful…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 50, Len Lye, Mark Amery, October 2001, Roger Horrocks
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review