John McHale (artist)

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John McHale (August 19, 1922 - November 2, 1978) is a British artist, art theorist, sociologist, and tracer of future studies. He is a member of the Independent Group, a British movement (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) from Pop Art that grew out of an interest in American mass culture and post-World War II technology.

She was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated in England and the United States, with a PhD in Sociology. After spending a year at Yale University in 1955-1956, he moved to the United States in 1962 to work with architect Richard Buckminster Fuller on ecological issues and environmental sustainability. He and his wife, artist Magda Cordell, then established their own future study organization, Center for Integrative Studies (CIS), to face the long-term consequences of scientific and technological developments in the future and human environment.

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Pop art

According to McHale's son, the term Pop Art was first coined by his father in 1954 in a conversation with Frank Cordell, although other sources praised his origin from British critic Lawrence Alloway. Both versions agree that the term was used in Independent Group discussions in the mid-1950s.

The critic Reyner Banham calls John McHale "the scholar-artist, the 'Daddy of the Pop'". Alloway in his article Artforum of "Pop art Since 1949" notes that "with reference to the pop art that can be shown [...] John McHale made a collage in 1955 from the fresh postwar color of American magazines printed. "McHale's work includes visual art, graphics, exhibition design, television, film, and general consulting for organizations in the US and Europe. He was exhibited extensively in Europe from 1950. He began as a constructivist artist and later switched to Pop art and Opoto op art. Together with his fellow members of the Independent Group, Richard Hamilton, Reyner Banham and Lawrence Alloway he organized the exhibition in 1951, inspired by the work of the scientist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Although they do not get financial support from the government or the Festival Office, they have an agenda that is close to the official exhibition of the British Festival. McHale with Alloway curated the Collage and Objects exhibition at ICA in 1954, where McHale first featured its Formative Pop Art collections including the Transistor series and its interactive collage book .

John McHale was awarded a scholarship to study with Josef Albers at the Yale University Design Department in August 1955, and returned to London in June 1956. He then participated in the 1956 exhibition This Is Tomorrow at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, where he provides a lot of visual Pop Art material (projector, gramophone motor, movie poster and maybe a juke box supplied by Frank Cordell). Jeremy Hunt states in his article on 'This Is Tomorrow' that Pop Art poster exhibition Just What's It That Makes a House Today So Different, So Interesting? is associated with "Richard Hamilton based on design by McHale." According to Magda Cordell, "the material in the collage comes from John McHale files."

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Works published

McHale is a member of the University of Southern Illinois's Design Faculty. In the 1960s he was an Associate with Buckminster Fuller at World Resources Inventory and at the World Design Science Decade Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he co-authored numerous reports. [1] McHale publishes widely in Europe and the United States on the impact of technology and culture, mass communication, and the future. Many of his articles include "Gropius and the Bauhaus" in Art (1955), "Josef Albers" and "Buckminster Fuller" in Architectural Review (1956), "The Expendable Icon # 1, # 2 "in Architectural Design (1959)," Art and Mass Media "in Cambridge Opinion (1959)," The Plastic Parthenon "in Macatre (1966) and "2000" in Architectural Design (1967), "Telefutures: Prospective Observation" at The New Television: A Public/Private Art , MoMA (1977), "The Future of Art and Mass Culture" in Leonardo (1979), "Future and Art Function" at ART News (1973). His books include Future Future published by George Braziller in 1968, Ecological Context , also by Braziller, in 1970, published by Collier-MacMillan in 1972, The Changing Information Environment published by Westview Press in 1972, and "Directory of Futures" (1977).

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Awards

McHale is a Fellow (and Secretary-General) of the World Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Geographical Society. He was awarded the Medaille d'Honneur en Vermeil, Society d 'Encouragement au ProgrÃÆ'¨s in 1966 and Knight Commanander's Cross of Order of St. Denis in 1974. McHale is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Institute of Ecology, the Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory, a member of the Colorado Archeological Society, a member of the World Futures Federation of Studies, and a founding member of the Advisory Board of the Future.

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References

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External links

• "John McHal" at siudesign.org
• "John McHale" on independentgroup.org

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