McHale, John

3 Collagists: list of exhibits, 1958

Item — Box 7: Series 11, Item: 37

Call Number: MSS 60, Series XI

Scope and Contents:

Brochure for an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1958. Includes artists' statements by Irwin, McHale, and Mesens.

Dates: 1958

Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John McHale archive > Catalogs, periodicals, ephemera, and small posters

3 Collagists: New work by E.L.T Mesens, John McHale, Gwyther Irwin, 1958

Item — Box 7: Series 11, Item: 36

Call Number: MSS 60, Series XI

Scope and Contents:

Small exhibition poster. Institute of Contemporary Arts, 5-29 November 1958.

Dates: 1958

Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John McHale archive > Catalogs, periodicals, ephemera, and small posters

11/60, ca. 1960

Item — Box Paintings B1995.24.3: Series 6

Call Number: MSS 60, Series VI

Scope and Contents:

For a full description and image of this work, see the online catalogue of the Yale Center for British Art.

Dates: ca. 1960

Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John McHale archive > Paintings

Aluminum Head, 1956

Item — McHale oversize: Series 3, Item: 5

Call Number: MSS 60, Series III

Scope and Contents: Aluminum was a lightweight construction material increasingly used in the 1950s by architects. It is sometimes associated with the New Pragmaticist architecture being built in Britain in these years. McHale's 'head-collages' of the 1950s, although they bear a superficial resemblance to Paolozzi's works, have been better described as images of the 'media-fed man' (Robert Freeman) -- figures that are "defined by what they consume." This consumerist conception of collage differs somewhat from...

Dates: 1956

Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John McHale archive > Collages

Class of '59 : Magda Cordell, Eduardo Paolozzi, John McHale : paintings, sculpture, collages, 1959

Item — Box 7: Series 11, Item: 38

Call Number: MSS 60, Series XI

Scope and Contents:

Brochure for an exhibition at The Union, Cambridge, February 7-19, 1959. Arranged by the Cambridge Contemporary Art Trust. One side of the sheet serves as a small poster. The verso includes a checklist and a commentary by Lawrence Alloway.

Dates: 1959

Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John McHale archive > Catalogs, periodicals, ephemera, and small posters

Coding, 1955

Item — Box 6: Series 7; Series 9; Series 10, Item: 19

Call Number: MSS 60, Series IX

Dates: 1955

Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John McHale archive > Sheets prepared by McHale for discussion of lecture by E.W. 'Bingo' Meyer, entitled "Probability and Information Theory and their Application to the Visual Arts" given March 8, 1955, to the Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

Coin Tossing, 1955

Item — Box 6: Series 7; Series 9; Series 10, Item: 21

Call Number: MSS 60, Series IX

Dates: 1955

Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John McHale archive > Sheets prepared by McHale for discussion of lecture by E.W. 'Bingo' Meyer, entitled "Probability and Information Theory and their Application to the Visual Arts" given March 8, 1955, to the Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

Collages and objects, 1954

Item — Box 7: Series 11, Item: 32

Call Number: MSS 60, Series XI

Scope and Contents:

Photocopy of the original brochure. "Exhibition organized by Lawrence Alloway; 13 October - 20 November 1954; London: Institute of Contempoary Arts, 1954."--Leaf [2]. With a list of the 83 items exhibited, including two collages books by John McHale: Palimpcestuous (no. 81) and Secret Life of a Talisman (no. 82).

Dates: 1954

Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John McHale archive > Catalogs, periodicals, ephemera, and small posters

Dimensions: British Abstract Art, 1948 to 1957, 1957?

Item — Box 7: Series 11, Item: 35a

Call Number: MSS 60, Series XI

Scope and Contents:

Exhibition announcement, designed by Toni Del Renzio. "Arranged by Lawrence Alloway with the co-operation of the ICA at the O'Hana Gallery, 3 Carlos Place, Grosvenor Square W1, December 6 to 21 …"

Dates: 1957?

Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John McHale archive > Catalogs, periodicals, ephemera, and small posters

Dot zero : no. 3, Spring 1967, 1967

Item — Box 7: Series 11, Item: 42

Call Number: MSS 60, Series XI

Scope and Contents: Includes "The Plastic Parthenon" by John McHale, pages 4-11.McHale writes: "The future of art seems no longer to lie with the creation of enduring masterworks but with defining alternative cultural strategies, through a series of communicative gestures in multi-media forms. As art and non-art become interchangeable, and the masterwork may only be a reel of punched or magnetized tape, the artist defines art less through any intrinsic value of the art object than by furnishing new...

Dates: 1967

Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John McHale archive > Catalogs, periodicals, ephemera, and small posters