John McHale (1922-1978)
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John McHale (1922-1978)

Telemath

細節
John McHale (1922-1978)
Telemath
oil and collage on board
36 x 48 in. (91.5 x 122 cm.)
Painted in 1958.
來源
A gift from the artist to James Meller, London.
出版
C. Lichtenstein and T. Schregenberger (eds), exhibition catalogue, As Found: The Discovery of the Ordinary, Baden, 2001, p. 172, illustrated.
展覽
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 3 Collagists: New Work by E.L.T. Mesens, John McHale, Gwyther Irwin, November 1958, catalogue not traced.
Zürich, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, As Found: The Discovery of the Ordinary, 2001.
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Independent Group: Parallel of Art & Life, March - June 2013, catalogue not traced.
Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, Parallel of Life and Art, November 2013 - April 2015, catalogue not traced.
注意事項
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

拍品專文

'McHale's human images arise from what they incorporate. He symbolises the proposition of social psychology, that there is no core of human nature, given and absolute, only what environment selects from the bundle of potentials which is a human being. McHale's folk are 'cultural products,' as we are'.

(L. Alloway, exhibition catalogue, Class of `59 paintings, sculpture, collages: Magda Cordell, Eduardo Paolozzi, John McHale, Cambridge, Contemporary Art Trust, February 1959)

In 1955 John McHale visited the United States to study at Yale University with Josef Albers. He returned to England with an extensive collection of US magazines which he was to use in his subsequent assemblages and collages. This same collection is believed to have been the source material for Richard Hamilton's Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing? that was used to promote the now seminal Whitechapel Show This is Tomorrow in 1956.

John McHale and Lawrence Alloway were the driving forces behind the Independent Group who met and debated at the ICA during the 1950s. Discussing the nature of modern culture, technology and mass communication, they formulated ideas surrounding the relevance of art within this new age and how it would not only reflect but also shape these new cultural orders. Working with artists such as Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi and Nigel Henderson, McHale created an iconography based in mechanical mass production with a human optimism at its core.




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