Periodicals
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the periodicals of the world and, with appropriate subdivisions, works on special aspects or sections of periodicals. Works on periodicals in a specific language, or in a specific country or larger area, are entered under the adjectival form of the language or area, e.g. Arabic periodicals; Canadian periodicals.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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
Lady Clare : a review : volume XLIV, June 1959, 1959
Item — Box 7: Series 11, item: 39
Call Number: MSS 60, Series XI
Scope and Contents:
Includes "The Human Image" by Robert Freeman, pages 6-9, with commentary on the work of Magda Cordell and John McHale; and "Images of the mass media" by John McHale, pages 10-11.
Dates:
1959
John McHale archive
Collection
Call Number: MSS 60
Overview:
The collection comprises collage books, collages, drawings, palettes, and posters by John McHale, with related printed material, including catalogs, periodicals, ephemera, and small posters.
Dates:
ca. 1950-1978.
Palette #1, 1950-1957
Item — Box 2: Series 5, item: 9
Call Number: MSS 60, Series V
Scope and Contents:
Periodicals used include Life, London Sunday Times, Look and Saturday Evening Post. Includes "A 100 mile high portrait of Earth" (from Look) and an almost complete copy of Life, April 11, 1955. One advertisement in this issue is noted as being used in Richard Hamilton's A-A-AH.
Dates:
1950-1957
Palette #2, 1955-1959
Item — Box 3: Series 5, item: 10a
Call Number: MSS 60, Series V
Scope and Contents:
Periodicals used include Madison Avenue, New Yorker, and Time. One of the photographs depicts McHale's Virginia Imported, 1957.
Dates:
1955-1959
Palette #3, 1971-1978
Item — Box 3: Series 5, item: 11a
Call Number: MSS 60, Series V
Scope and Contents:
The last working palette, although a number of tear sheets are dated earlier (1950s). Some are prepared for collage.
Dates:
1971-1978
Palette #4, c1956
Item — Box 2: Series 5, item: 12
Call Number: MSS 60, Series V
Scope and Contents:
Includes tearsheet from tackboard in John McHale's London studio c.1956, as depicted in the Sam Lambert photograph.
Dates:
c1956