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First published in 2009, this lively art book will be re-released in 2015 alongside a new edition of the biography - as the art and life of Len Lye continue to fascinate readers in New Zealand and around the world.   "Kinetic art is the first new category of art since prehistory", ex-pat New Zealand artist Len Lye boldly claimed in an essay in 1964. In Art that Moves: The Work of Len Lye , Roger Horrocks - author of a best-selling biography of Lye - explores what Lye meant by this, and how his own work in sculpture and film bore it out.   "My book is about an important artist and a big idea, Len Lye's idea that movement could become the basis for new forms of art. . . He believed that only a few of the possibilities of movement had so far been tapped. This book aims to explore what the world of art - and the world in general - may have looked like through the eyes of an artist whose passionate interest was 'the mystery of motion." - Roger Horrocks   The well-illustrated book also includes a DVD containing a short documentary by Shirley and Roger Horrocks alongside brilliant footage from Lye's films and of his sculptures in motion. In this book Len Lye's art moves again - alert and alive