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Archives & Manuscripts
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John McHale (1922-1978) was a British collage artist, art theorist, and sociologist. As a member of the Independent Group, formed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1952, McHale helped to originate Pop Art in Britain, a movement rooted in American mass culture and modern technology. McHale spent a year at Yale University in 1955-1956 and returned permanently to the US in 1962 to work with Richard Buckminster Fuller on ecological issues and environmental sustainability. With his wife, the artist Magda Cordell, McHale founded the Center for Integrative Studies (CIS) to consider the impact of modern industrialized world on human society and the environment. In a 1984 retrospective of McHale's work, Charlotta Kotik wrote: “The unique oeuvre of John McHale results from both his special creative talents and his exceptional human qualities. John McHale was at once a visual artist, writer, educator and organizer; but most important, he was a humanist philosopher endowed with relentless energy to pursue innovations which were ultimately to result in changes beneficial to mankind. He looked toward the future with a mixture of optimism and skepticism, but above all with a great deal of realistic wisdom, making possible a clear formulation of our predicament, and the consequences of our behavior well in advance of the mainstream.” (The Expendable Ikon, p. 9).
Subject Terms:
McHale, John. | McHale, Magda Cordell. | Alloway, Lawrence, 1926–1990. | Dubuffet, Jean, 1901–1985. | Irwin, Gwyther, 1931–2008. | Mesens, E. L. T. (Edouard Léon Théodore), 1903–1971. | Meyer, E. W. Probability and information theory and their application to the visual arts. | Paolozzi, Eduardo, Sir, 1924–2005. | Independent Group (Association : Great Britain) | Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England) | Whitechapel Art Gallery. | This Is Tomorrow (1956 : Whitechapel Art Gallery) | Art, Modern -- 20th century. | Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. | Collage -- 20th century. | Collage -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. | Information theory. | Pop art. | Pop art -- Exhibitions. | Probabilities.
McHale, John. Aluminum head. | McHale, John. Shoe-life stories. | McHale, John. Transistor. | McHale, John. Why I took to the washers in luxury flats. | Del Renzio, Toni. | Hamilton, Richard, 1922–2011. | Henderson, Nigel, 1917–1985. | Katayama, Toshihiro, 1928–2013. | Independent Group (Association : Great Britain) | Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)