John McHale
"This is Tomorrow" exhibition
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 18 Jun 92
...John McHale and Eduardo Paolozzi. One display was composed of images and artefacts derived from popular culture and the catalogue/poster featured Richard Hamilton’s seminal collage “Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?” The popular culture section proved the most...
Independent Group (IG) (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 09 Jun 92
...John McHale, Eduardo Paolozzi, Colin St John Wilson, Alison and Peter Smithson, and William Turnbull. Thus the IG represented a wide cross-section of the visual arts and criticism. The aim of IG was to consider the implications for art and society of science, technology and the mass media at...
The Independent Group:
Fathers [and mothers] of Pop (1990)
→
café library
John A. Walker - 01 Feb 90
...John McHale, Eduardo Paolozzi, Colin St John Wilson, Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling, William Turnbull and John Voelcker. Thus the Independent Group encompassed art and design critics, architects, artists and people working in popular culture (Frank Cordell in pop music and del Renzio...
Art in the age of mass media (1984)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineClive Boutle - 01 Jul 84
Art in the age of mass media (1984) John A. Walker interviewed by Clive Boutle. Clive Boutle: What prompted you to write [the book] Art in the age of mass media? John A. Walker: Since the late 1970s I have been teaching a course on art and mass culture to fine art students and there was...
The Vincent van Gogh industry (1981)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 05 Jun 81
The Vincent van Gogh industry (1981) "Van Gogh is not Van Gogh now. Society has sterilised him in its laboratory, he has been vulgarised as part of its encyclopedic material, he has been retailed in samples in its salerooms, splendid houses and official buildings." [1] These remarks by Jean...
