McHale, John, Why I took to the washers in luxury flats, 1954
- Title:
- Why I took to the washers in luxury flats.
- Published/Created:
- 1954.
- Physical Description:
- 1 collage book ; 46 x 24 cm (closed)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsMSS 60 Box 4, item 1 (Cabinet L)Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHaleAccessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Information
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10184525
- Classification:
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Notes:
- "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 ... 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 The Independent Group: postwar Britain and the aesthetics of plenty. Edited by David Robbins. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1990
Signed on front cover: John McHale '54
Restricted fragile material. Use requires permission of the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts. - Subject Terms:
- Human information processing.Interactive art.Popular culture.
- Form/Genre:
- Collages (visual works)
Collage books. - Export:
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