Happy moments, text and images by Len Lye

Auckland: The Holloway Press, 2002. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. #52 of the limited first edition of 150 copies. Original prospectus enclosed. Leonard Charles Huia Lye (1901 - 1980) was a New Zealand artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley. Lye's sculptures are found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Berkeley Art Museum. Although he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950, much of his work went to New Zealand after his death, where it is housed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth..