McHale, John, Why I Took to the Washers in Luxury Flats, 1954
- Call Number:
- MSS 60
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- McHale, John
- Title(s):
- Why I Took to the Washers in Luxury Flats
- Date:
- 1954
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series I: Collage Books
- Part of Collection:
- Box 4, item 1
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research. and Restricted fragile material. Use requires permission of the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- In CopyrightThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, also belong to the Yale Center for British Art. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- "McHale at this time abandoned the neural forms of his earlier work in order to emphasize the role of communications media. He wished to visualize how raw data (represented by torn bits of colored paper, newspapers, and magazines) might be organized by a human or mechanical brain into discrete messages. The collage books that he produced in 1954 (cat. no. 37) synthesized the themes of mass culture, information processing, and viewer participation. Each page of these books (one of which was shown in the ICA's <title>Collages and Objects</title> exhibition in 1954) is composed of a collage cut into strips, so that the volume becomes a bound series of variable collages to be 'read' however the viewer wishes."--Baas, Jacquelynn. "John McHale" In <title>The Independent Group: postwar Britain and the aesthetics of plenty.</title> Edited by David Robbins. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1990.
- Additional Notes:
- Signed on front cover: John McHale '54
- Physical Description:
- 1 collage book ; 46 x 24 cm (closed)
- Genre:
- Collages (visual works), Collage books, Interactive art, Abstract art, Drawings (visual works), Ephemera, Exhibition catalogs, Periodicals, Photographs, Posters, Sketchbooks, and Tear sheets
- Subject Terms:
- Art, ModernCollageDot zeroExhibitionsHuman information processingInformation theoryLady Clare magazineMcHale, John. Aluminum head.McHale, John. Shoe-life storiesMcHale, John. TransistorMcHale, John. Why I took to the washers in luxury flatsPop artPopular cultureProbabilities
- Subject Period:
- 20th Century
- Associated People/Groups:
- Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985Independent Group (Association : Great Britain)Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)Irwin, Gwyther, 1931-2008McHale, JohnMcHale, Magda CordellMesens, E. L. T., 1903-1971 (Edouard Léon Théodore)Meyer, E. W.Paolozzi, Eduardo, 1924-2005This Is Tomorrow (1956 : Whitechapel Art Gallery)Whitechapel Art Gallery
- Finding Aid Title:
- John McHale archive
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11090.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2798363
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2798363?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1