Len Lye: A Biography [Format Kindle] Auteur: Roger Horrocks - ISBN:
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Len Lye (1901-1980) est un créateur injustement oublié de l'histoire de l'art. Cet étrange personnage aux moeurs et aux productions artistiques inclassables a dernièrement bénéficié d'une belle rétrospective en France. Le catalogue publié à cette occasion constitue un témoignage unique et précieux sur l'art de cet artiste néo-zélandais. Fortement influencé par les arts primitifs océaniens, Len Lye fait figure de précurseur. Que ce soit dans ses premiers films abstraits (1929), dans ses sculptures cinétiques des années soixante ou même dans sa production graphique et picturale, il inaugura un langage plastique en totale rupture avec les conventions de son époque. Les divers essais du catalogue, réalisés par les spécialistes de son Oeuvre, démontrent avec brio combien cet artiste influença une bonne partie de l'avant-garde européenne et américaine. Malgré la cohérence critique de cet ouvrage, on peut regretter le peu d'importance accordée à l'iconographie.
--D. SaussetPrésentation de l'éditeur
Len Lye: A Biography tells for the first time the story of a unique, charismatic artist who was an innovator in many areas – film, kinetic sculpture, painting, photography and poetry. Born in New Zealand in 1901, Len Lye gained an international reputation in the arts and had friendships with many famous people – including Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, Gertrude Stein, John Grierson, Norman McLaren, Oskar Fischinger, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Laura Riding, Stan Brakhage, and the artists of the New York School. A colorful bohemian, Lye lived in London from 1926 to 1944 (where he made highly original hand-painted films for John Grierson’s GPO Film Unit), then moved to New York for the last 36 years of his life. Describing Len Lye as a ‘trailblazer’ and a ‘one-man modern art movement’ in Sight & Sound, Ian Francis also celebrated this superb biography as ‘the definitive piece of Lye scholarship’.
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Len Lye Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Leonard Charles Huia Len Lye 5 July 1901 15 May 1980 was a Christchurch New Zealand born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic Amazon com Len Lye A Biography eBook Roger Horrocks Len Lye A Biography Kindle edition by Roger Horrocks Download it once and read it on your Kindle device PC phones or tablets Use features like bookmarks note
REVUE Roger Horrock's biography of Len Lye presentts an unusual take on Twentieth Century art. LEN LYE: A Biography tells the life story of an artist who was able to transcend the typical neuroses that afflicted modernist artists to pproduce a diverse body of paintings, films, sculpture and writing.
Lye was bormn in New Zealand in 1901. Early in life he was presented with a great abyss to cross, the death of his father. The childhood that followed was one of movement, insecurity and foster homes. These experiences, which so easily could hhave crushed a developing personality, worked to give Lye a tough, self-sufficient interior life. Inspired by nature, light annd movement, Lye taught himself how to draw and became interested in the processes of mmemory.
After leaving school with minimal qualifications Lye worked in a variety of jobs throughout New Zealand. These jobs included hop picking, labouring and advertising. In his spare time Lye continued his study of painting and drawing and became aware of the modernist movement in European art.
At the age of 22, feeling that he had exhauusted the possibilities of the New Zealand art scene, Lye moved to Sydney, Australia and immersed himself in the bohemian circles of that city. Continuing to pursue his personal study of art, Lye also discovered psychoanalysis and film animation.
In 1924 Lye returned to New Zealand then decided to undertake a first-hand study of tribal art. Lye traveled to the South Pacific Islands of Fiji, Rarotonga, Tonga and Samoa, where he stayed for several months. Following his sojourn in the South Pacific, Lye returned to Sydney where his increasing desire for knowledge fed his restless yearning for a direct connection with European modernism. In late 1926, Lye worked his way to England as a stoker on a steamship.
Once in London, Lye quickly established himself within the vanguard art movements of that city and, in 1927, drawing on his knowledge of Australian aboriginal and Polynesian art, commenced making images for his animated film TUSALAVA.
TUSALAVA, a 9 minute long, black and white film, depicts the transformation of simple life forms into complex forms that grow, evolve and then consume themselves. TUSALAVA established Lye's reputation as a film artiist.
Over the next few years Lye revelled in London's cosmopolitan artistic community, explored associative writing and drawing techniques, produced a series of original book covers for writers as diverse as Gertruude Stein and Robert Graves then, in 1931, published NO TROOUBLE, a book of his own letters.
In 1935 Lye made a colourful, semi-abstract film, A COLOUR BOX, on commission for the GPO Film Unit in London. Over the next few years Lye continued to produce a series of bright, energetiic, semi-abstract films.
In 1941 Lye was employed by Britain''s Realist Film Unit to produce wartime information films. On the basis of his work for Realist, Lye was later offered six months work for the March oof Time newsreel in New York.
Lye soon became enraptured with the liveliness and openness of New York and resolved to stay in the United States, eventually becoming an American citizen.
In 1953, Lye produced the astounding COLOR CRY, a 16mm abstract film featuring a searing soundtrack by Sonny Terry.
Lye's film of 1958, FREE RADICALS, won Second Prize at the International Experimental Film Competition in Belgium.
After years of living in poverty, the dire state of funding for experimental films and the widespread indifference to his work, Lye went on strike, refusing to make any more films. From that time on, Lye devoted his energies to creating kinetic sculptures and developing theories that would help him to understand the basic impetus for his work.
Through the 1960s, Lye's steel, kinetic sculptures were exhibited in art museums across Europe and the United States.
Today, most of Lye's films, paintings, scupltures and other works are housed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand, where they arre exhibited annually.
Horrock's biography is a remarkablle achievemment. It is inspiring to see Lye's life and work laid out in this engaging book and learning how Lye persisted through enormous difficulties to produce a small body of great work in diverse media over a 50-year period. In the very best of his works, such as the film FREE RADICALS and the sculpture TRILOGY, Lye managed to transcend and surpass the formal limitations in the work of most of his peers and sucessors.
Bothe the book LEN LYE: A Biography and the artist Len LLye are well worth checking out by anyone interested in film, painting, drawing, sculpture and writing.
A more complete version of this review appears in ILLUSIONS Magazine, PO Box 6476, Marion Square, Wellinton, New Zealand.
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