McHale, John, Aluminum Head, 1956
- Call Number:
- MSS 60
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- McHale, John
- Title(s):
- Aluminum Head
- Date:
- 1956
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series III: Collages
- Part of Collection:
- McHale oversize, item 5
- 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:
- 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 its predecessors.
- Arrangement:
- Signed: McHale '56
- Physical Description:
- 1 collage : black ink on white paper and aluminum foil ; 47.5 x 39.5 cm, in framed 65 x 56.5 cm
- Genre:
- Collages (visual works), Abstract art, Collage books, Drawings (visual works), Ephemera, Exhibition catalogs, Periodicals, Photographs, Posters, Sketchbooks, and Tear sheets
- Subject Terms:
- AluminumArt, ModernCollageConsumption (Economics)Dot zeroExhibitionsInformation theoryLady Clare magazineMass mediaMcHale, John. Aluminum head.McHale, John. Shoe-life storiesMcHale, John. TransistorMcHale, John. Why I took to the washers in luxury flatsPop artProbabilities
- Subject Period:
- 20th Century
- Associated People/Groups:
- Paolozzi, Eduardo, 1924-2005
- 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/2798369
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2798369?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1