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1 online resource |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part one: Sense games; 1 The Flash; 2 Cape Campbell; 3 The First Sketchbook; 4 Composing Motion; 5 Modernism; 6 Hei-Tiki; 7 Sydney; 8 Kinetic Theatre; 9 Samoa; 10 Deportation; 11 Jack Ellitt; Part two: 'Individual happiness now'; 12 Stoker Sculptor; 13 Batiks; 14 Tusalava; 15 Jane Thompson; 16 The Seven and Five Society; 17 Robert Graves and Laura Riding; 18 Mallorca; 19 A Wedding; 20 Peanut Vendor; 21 A Colour Box; 22 The Birth of the Robot; 23 Rainbow Dance; 24 Public and Private; 25 Surrealism; 26 The English Walt Disney; 27 The World and Ourselves |
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28 Individual Happiness Now29 Going to the Top; 30 War Films; 31 Kill or Be Killed; Part three: 'Free radical'; 32 Willkie; 33 A Rorschach Test; 34 Ann Hindle; 35 Paintings and Poems; 36 Shoe of My Mind; 37 Gracious Living with Little Money; 38 Madison Avenue; 39 Rhythm; 40 Free Radicals; 41 Going on Strike; 42 Tangibles; 43 Dance of the Machines; 44 Sartorial Thrift-Shop Style; 45 The Movement Movement; 46 A Flip and Two Twisters; 47 Life in the Sixties; 48 The Snake God; 49 Genetics; 50 The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid; 51 Utopias; 52 Homes; 53 New Plymouth; 54 Relationships |
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55 Direct Film Apprentices56 Quitting the Lot; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
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Len Lye: A Biography tells for the first time the story of an extraordinary New Zealander? a brilliant artist with an international career who never lost the informality, the energy and the independence of spirit of his South Pacific origins. Lye (1901?80) was a charismatic artist of enormous talent who became a leading figure in international modernism. He was a gifted innovator in many areas of the arts? film, painting, sculpture, photography and writing. Horrocks' exhaustive study of Lye is the result of twenty years of research and is based on interviews with many of those close to |
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Lye, Len, 1901-1980.
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Lye, Len, 1901-1980 fast |
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Artists -- New Zealand -- Biography
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Biography.
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ART -- History -- General.
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Artists
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction
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New Zealand
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781869405236 |
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1869405234 |
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