Table of Contents

Introduction, by Paul Brobbel, Wystan Curnow and Roger Horrocks

History
Len Lye’s Kinetic Sculptures, by Peter Selz
Between Art and Engineering, by Paul Brobbel, Aaron Kreisler, Shayne Gooch, John Matthews and Evan Webb

Aesthetics
Cinematic Sculpture, by Malcolm Le Grice
Motion, Time, Energy, by Roger Horrocks
`Live’ Motion, Pure Movement and Liberation: Len Lye’s Kinetic Imaginary, by Luke Smythe

Contexts
Repatriating Len Lye: The Figure of Motion and its Transformations, by Wystan Curnow
Len Lye as a `Sydney’ Artist, by Rex Butler and A.D.S. Donaldson
`When London Swung a Bit’: Len Lye in Inter-war Britain, by Scott Anthony
`v. spinkly. 9 flutter & blink’: Archiving Len Lye, by Sarah Davy

The Artist at Work
From Jazz to `Sound Construction’, by Roger Horrocks
Shadowgraphs: Photographic Portraits by Len Lye, by Geoffrey Batchen
Behind the Scenes: The Base in Len Lye’s Sculptures, by Evan Webb
Trade Tattoos: Animation Stencils and Readymade Movement, by Alla Gadassik

Bibliography
Contributors
Image Credits and Acknowledgements
Index

About the Author

Paul Brobbel is the Len Lye Curator at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, and former Assistant Collection Manager (Photography) at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand.

Wystan Curnow is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Auckland. He is an art critic, poet, curator and editor. He is a trustee of the Len Lye Foundation.

Roger Horrocks is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Auckland. He worked as Len Lye’s assistant during the last year of his life, and became his biographer. He is a trustee of the Len Lye Foundation.