Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye

First published in 2009, this lively art book will be re-released in 2015 alongside a new edition of the biography – as the art and life of Len Lye continue to fascinate readers in New Zealand and around the world. "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. In Art that Moves: The Work of Len Lye, Roger Horrocks – author of a best-selling biography of Lye – explores what Lye meant by this, and how his own work in sculpture and film bore it out. "My book is about an important artist and a big idea, Len Lye’s idea that movement could become the basis for new forms of art. . . He believed that only a few of the possibilities of movement had so far been tapped. This book aims to explore what the world of art – and the world in general – may have looked like through the eyes of an artist whose passionate interest was ‘the mystery of motion." – Roger Horrocks The well-illustrated book also includes a DVD containing a short documentary by Shirley and Roger Horrocks alongside brilliant footage from Lye’s films and of his sculptures in motion. In this book Len Lye’s art moves again – alert and alive