Len Lye

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Publications & Biography

• Roger Horrocks, Lye, Creeley, Cage and EAT: New York 1967 (nzepc/AUP)
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
  

Gallery

• Len Lye in Sydney c1925
• Frames from the film 'N. or N.W.' (1937)
• Lye in New York in 1946, making spiral shapes out of wire.
• Lye's self portrait photogram (1947)
• Lye making the film 'Fountain of Hope' for United Nations Day 1959

On-line Works

Texts supplied courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation.

• LINGER LONGER LAURA
• DON"T SAY IT
• YES BY JESUS NO
• IN GRIM DETERMINATION

Poems from the 1940s

• SHOE OF MY MIND
• WHAT STRATA
• THE LONG DREAM OF WAKING
• From t w i
• 'a cornea b c d e . . . '
• An Adolescent Jump Took Place Across a Stream 
   of Trout on a Sidewalk of Fish in Leap-Time

From Happy Moments (1960)   

From The Art That Moves

From 'Song Time Stuff' (1938)

• CHAIR IN YOUR HAIR
• O ME K
• PASSING THE BUCK TO THE BRONTES
• DAZZLING DAYLIGHT
• THE BEAUTIFUL WEATHER A LOVELY MOLL
• AND THE SWEAT ON THE BROW OF CHARING CROSS ROAD
• THE MANNA BALL

• AM THING
• GRASS CLIPPINGS

About Len Lye

• John Hurrell, Len Lye's Universe (NZFA/Govett-Brewster)
• Roger Horrocks, Afterword to Len Lye’s Happy Moments (nzepc/Holloway Press)
• Roger Horrocks, My Word My World: Len Lye’s Poetry (nzepc/Landfall)
• Murray Edmond, Talk for Launch of Len Lye's Body English (Holloway Press)

  
  

Audio / Visual

• From Free Radicals
  

Archives

• Len Lye Foundation (The Community Archive)
  

Links

• Len Lye Foundation (Govett-Brewster)
• Len Lye Symposium, Sept 10 2011 (Govett-Brewster)
  

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Last updated 17 September, 2003