McHale, John, Transistor, 1954
- Call Number:
- MSS 60
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- McHale, John
- Title(s):
- Transistor
- Date:
- 1954
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series III: Collages
- Part of Collection:
- Box 5, item 4
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- 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:
- From a series of works called Transistors. These works serve as visual analogs to the processing of information. The invention of the transistor in 1948 led to the development of the electronic computer, as well as smaller radios and other communication devices. McHale's works relate to such new technological phenomena.
- Arrangement:
- Signed: John McHale 1954.
- Physical Description:
- 1 collage : brown kraft paper, gray construction paper and yellow and black coated papers ; 19.5 x 59 cm
- Genre:
- Collages (visual works), Abstract art, Collage books, Drawings (visual works), Ephemera, Exhibition catalogs, Periodicals, Photographs, Posters, Sketchbooks, and Tear sheets
- Subject Terms:
- Art, ModernCollageComputersDot 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 artProbabilitiesTransistors
- 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/2798368
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2798368?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1