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McHale, John

 Person

Found in 103 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Drawing 1, ca. 1960?

 Item — Box 1: Series 7; Series 8, Item: 17.1
Call Number: MSS 60, Series VIII

Drawing 2, ca. 1960?

 Item — Box 1: Series 7; Series 8, Item: 17.2
Call Number: MSS 60, Series VIII

Drawing 3, ca. 1960?

 Item — Box 1: Series 7; Series 8, Item: 17.3
Call Number: MSS 60, Series VIII

Drawing 4, ca. 1960?

 Item — Box 1: Series 7; Series 8, Item: 17.4
Call Number: MSS 60, Series VIII

Drawing 5, ca. 1960?

 Item — Box 1: Series 7; Series 8, Item: 17.5
Call Number: MSS 60, Series VIII

Drawing 6, ca. 1960?

 Item — Box 1: Series 7; Series 8, Item: 17.6
Call Number: MSS 60, Series VIII

Drawing 7, ca. 1960?

 Item — Box 1: Series 7; Series 8, Item: 17.7
Call Number: MSS 60, Series VIII

Drawing 8, ca. 1960?

 Item — Box 1: Series 7; Series 8, Item: 17.8
Call Number: MSS 60, Series VIII

Drawing 9, ca. 1960?

 Item — Box 1: Series 7; Series 8, Item: 17.9
Call Number: MSS 60, Series VIII

Drawing 10, ca. 1960?

 Item — Box 1: Series 7; Series 8, Item: 17.10
Call Number: MSS 60, Series VIII

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