Everything about John Mchale Artist totally explained
John McHale (born
Maryhill,
Glasgow 1922, died
Houston,Texas 1978) was an artist, a founder member of the
Institute of Contemporary Arts, and a founder of the
Independent Group, which was a British movement that originated
Pop Art which grew out of a fascination with American mass culture and post-WWII technologies.
Pop Art
According to McHale's son, the term Pop Art was first coined by his father in 1954 in conversation with
Frank Cordell, although other sources erroneously credit its origin to the British critic
Lawrence Alloway. Both versions agree that the term was in use in
Independent Group discussions by mid 1955.
The critic
Reyner Banham called John McHale the "scholar-artist, this 'Father of Pop'". Alloway in his
Artforum article on "Pop art Since 1949" notes that "with reference to pop art that could be demonstrated […] John McHale made collages in 1955 out of the then-fresh postwar color printed American magazines." McHale's works included fine arts, graphics, exhibition design, television, film and general consultancy to organisations in the US and Europe. He exhibited widely in Europe from 1950.He started as a
Constructivism artist and then transitioned into his
Pop art and proto
Op art. With fellow members of the Independent Group,
Richard Hamilton, Reyner Banham and
Lawrence Alloway he organised the
Growth and Form exhibition in 1951, inspired by the work of the scientist
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Although it received no financial support from the government or the Festival Office it had an agenda which was close to the official exhibitions of the
Festival of Britain. McHale with Alloway curated a
Collages and Objects exhibit at the ICA in 1954, where McHale first exhibited his formative Pop Art collages including the
Transistor series, and his interactive gaming collage
Why I Took To The Washers In Luxury Flats. McHale was awarded a scholarship to study with
Joseph Albers at the Design Department of
Yale University in August 1955, and returned to London in June 1956. John McHale participated in the 1956 exhibition
This Is Tomorrow at the
Whitechapel Art Gallery, where he supplied a good deal of the Pop Art visual material. (Projectors, gramophone motors, film posters and probably the juke box were supplied by
Frank Cordell) According to Magda Cordell, "the material in that collage came from John McHale's files."
Published Work
Born in Scotland, McHale was educated in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, with a PhD in Sociology. McHale published extensively in Europe and the US on the impact of technology and culture, mass communications and the future. His numerous articles include "Gropius and the Bauhaus" in
Art (1955), "Joseph Albers" and "Buckminster Fuller" in
Architectural Review (1956), "The Expendable Ikon #1, #2" in
Architectural Design (1959),"The Fine Arts and Mass Media" in Cambridge Opinion (17)(1959), "The Plastic Parthenon" in
Macatre (1966) and "2000+" in
Architectural Design (1967), "Telefutures: Prospective Observations" in
The New Television: A Public/Private Art, MOMA (1977),"The Future of Art and Mass Culture",
Leonardo, (Vol.12, No.1, Winter,1979, pp59-64),"The Future and Function of Art", ART News Feb 1973,pp24-28. His books include
The Future of the Future published by Braziller in 1968,
The Ecological Context, also by Braziller, in 1970,
World Facts and Trends published by Collier-MacMillan in 1972, and
The Changing Information Environment published by Westview Press in 1972. McHale was a member of the
Southern Illinois University Design Faculty. In the 1960s he was an Associate with
Buckminster Fuller in the World Resources Inventory and in the World Design Science Decade Centre at
Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he co-authored a number of the reports.
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Honours
McHale was 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 Progres in 1966 and the Knight Commanander's Cross of the Order of St. Denis in 1974. McHale was a member of the
American Sociological Association, Institute of Ecology, Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory, a member of the Colorado Archaeological Society, a member of the
World Futures Studies Federation, and a founding member of the Futures Advisory Board.
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