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Len (Leonard Charles Huia) Lye (1901 - 1981) was active/lived in New York / New Zealand. Len Lye is known for Kinetic sculpture, collage, writing, filmmaking.
Leonard Charles Huia Lye was born on 5 July 1901 in Christchurch. A year earlier the marriage of his parents, Rose Ann Cole and Harry Lye, a hairdresser, had caused conflict between his father's Anglican and his mother's Irish Catholic associates. Len grew up opposed to what he saw as the intolerance of all religions. After Harry died in July 1904, Rose struggled to make a living as a housekeeper and cleaner. She was forced to board out Len and his brother Phillip (born in 1903) with a succession of relatives. Despite an insecure and needy childhood, Len developed an exuberant and independent personality.
His happiest time was a year at the Cape Campbell lighthouse after his mother married the assistant keeper, Frederick Powell, in June 1908. This idyll ended within a year as Powell became moody and violent and was committed to a mental hospital. The boys never saw him again, but the lighthouse, the waves and the marine life at the Cape would later reappear constantly in Lye's a ...
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27 Book References for Len (Leonard Charles Huia) Lye
Year
Author
Title
Pages
Color
2009
Rainer, Cosima et al
See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision (Lentos Art Museum, LInz, Austria
312
Yes
2007
Furniss, Maureen
Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics
276
Yes
2005
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
479
No
2005
Davenport, Ray
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2421
No
2003
Faber, Liz and Helen Walters
Animation Unlimited: Innovative Short Films Since 1940
192
Yes
2002
Smoodin, Eric Loren and Ann Martin, Editors
Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957
394
No
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
3724
No
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1059
No
1988
Sandler, Irving
American Art of the 1960s
412
Yes
1987
Cummings, Paul
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
653
No
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1081
No
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
656
No
1981
Rugoff, Milton
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
669
Yes
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
616
Yes
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
260
No
1976
Armstrong, Tom
200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)
336
Yes
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
756
No
1976
Russett, Robert and Cecile Star (Editors)
Experimental Animation: An Illustrated Anthology
224
No
1973
Johnson, Charlotte Buel
Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development
96
Yes
1972
Hunter, Sam
American Art of the 20th Century
487
Yes
1971
Calas, Nicolas and Elena
Icons and Images of the Sixties
347
No
1968
Morris, Jerrold
On the Enjoyment of Modern Art
86
Yes
1967
Artist in America, Editors
The Artist in America
256
Yes
1967
Ashton, Dore
Modern American Sculpture
130
Yes
1967
Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh
Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques
342
No
1966
Hunter, Sam (chapter on US)
New Art Around the World
510
Yes
1965
Kuh, Katherine
Break Up The Core of Modern Art
136
Yes
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