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Call Number:
MSS 60
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Title(s):
Dot zero : no. 3, Spring 1967
Date:
1967
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series XI: Catalogs, periodicals, ephemera, and small posters
Part of Collection:
Box 7, item 42
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
In Copyright

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, also belong to the Yale Center for British Art. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Includes "The Plastic Parthenon" by John McHale, pages 4-11. McHale writes: "The future of art seems no longer to lie with the creation of enduring masterworks but with defining alternative cultural strategies, through a series of communicative gestures in multi-media forms. As art and non-art become interchangeable, and the masterwork may only be a reel of punched or magnetized tape, the artist defines art less through any intrinsic value of the art object than by furnishing new conceptualities of life style and orientation ..."
Physical Description:
45, [3] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Genre:
Periodicals, Abstract art, Collage books, Collages (visual works), Drawings (visual works), Ephemera, Exhibition catalogs, Photographs, Posters, Sketchbooks, and Tear sheets
Subject Terms:
Art, Modern
Collage
Dot zero
Exhibitions
Information theory
Lady Clare magazine
McHale, John. Aluminum head.
McHale, John. Shoe-life stories
McHale, John. Transistor
McHale, John. Why I took to the washers in luxury flats
Pop art
Probabilities
Subject Period:
20th Century
Associated People/Groups:
McHale, John
Finding Aid Title:
John McHale archive
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11090.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2798465
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2798465?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1