The expendable reader : articles on art, architecture, design, and media (1951-1979) / by John McHale ; edited by Alex Kitnick.

Main entry:

McHale, John, author.

Title & Author:

The expendable reader : articles on art, architecture, design, and media (1951-1979) / by John McHale ; edited by Alex Kitnick.

Publication:

New York, NY : GSAPP Books, 2011.

Description:

295 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Series:

GSAPP sourcebooks series ; 1

Notes:
"The texts by John McHale that comprise this volume were first published in a variety of different publications."
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: John McHale - Hip artificer / Alex Kitnick -- Modernist precedents -- Problems of adolescent art -- Gropius and the Bauhau -- Josef Albers -- The Fine Arts and the mass media -- The expendable Ikon 1 -- The expendable Ikon 2 -- The Fine Arts in the mass media -- The man from Mascom -- The plastic parthenon -- Fuller, technology, and total design -- Buckminster Fuller -- Technology in the home -- Marginalia -- World dwelling -- The future -- The future and the functions of art - A conversation between Alvin Toffler and John McHale -- Telefuture - Prospective observations -- The future of art and mass culture -- Appendix -- The cultural bomb -- Afterword: Never at home / Mark Wigley.

Summary:

From the Bauhaus to Buckminster Fuller, and from Elvis to ecology, the writings of John McHale (1922-78) engage a diverse set of concerns. Focused on questions of art, architecture, ecology, and the mass media, all of McHale's writings wrestle with questions of expendability and the future, and the impact of technological and social change on traditional ideas of culture. Assembled from a broad range of sources, the essays gathered together here enable a sharger grasp on key terms that preoccupied McHale, such as expendability, lifestyle, and network, many of which have become central to debates in the present. -- From back cover.

ISBN:

9781883584702 (alk. paper)
1883584701 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Art and society.
Art et société.

Added entries:

Kitnick, Alex, 1981- editor, writer of introduction.
Wigley, Mark, writer of afterword.
GSAPP sourcebooks ; 1.

Articles on art, architecture, design, and media (1951-1979)

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 276253
Call No.: BIB 210807
Status: Available

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