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A long-awaited collection of essays about Len Lye by an international range of critics has just been published by Canterbury University Press (http://www.cup.canterbury.ac.nz/new/). It’s called The Long Dream of Waking and it offers 13 ‘new perspectives’ on the artist. Paul Brobbel, Wystan Curnow and Roger Horrocks have edited the book, and the contributors include the famous American curator Peter Selz and leading British experimental film-maker Malcolm LeGrice. There are also essays by Luke Smythe, Sarah Davy, Geoffrey Batchen, Evan Webb and Alla Gadassik.
In a section on Lye’s ‘Contexts,’ his links with Sydney are discussed by Rex Butler and A D S Donaldson and his links with London by Scott Anthony. There are also essays by Horrocks and Curnow, and a discussion of ‘Art and Engineering’ in the artist’s work by John Matthews, Shayne Gooch, Aaron Kreisler, Webb, and Brobbel.
A must for anyone with a serious interest in Lye, this new book is very richly illustrated and also has a memorable cover of Lye gazing through a magnifying glass (a photo by Robert del Tredici). The book sells for $49.99 and can be ordered from the Govett-Brewster shop (http://www.govettbrewster.com/shop/) or through your local bookstore..
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Len Lye and Robert Graves in Majorca 1968
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