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Rethinking the past, Melissa Laing
Re-inventing New Zealand: Essays on the Arts and the Media Roger Horrocks Atuanui Press, $45.00, ISBN 9780992245382 As I opened a blank document to begin this review, a tweet popped up in my feed from Morgan Godfery: “Sure,” Godfery writes…
Tagged with: Atuanui Press, Issue 116, Melissa Laing, Roger Horrocks, Summer 2016
Posted in Art, Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Fizz with zip, Wystan Curnow
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
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Poetical philosophies, John Dennison
Song of the Ghost in the Machine Roger Horrocks Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864739858 Shaggy Magpie Songs Murray Edmond Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869408411 Generation Kitchen Richard Reeve Otago University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877578922 Roger Horrocks’s Song of…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2016, Issue 113, John Dennison, Murray Edmond, Otago University Press, Richard Reeve, Roger Horrocks, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A figure in motion, Stella Ramage
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
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Lyetening up, Mark Amery
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, Roger Horrocks, Winter 2000
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review