McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980
Dates
- Existence: 1911-07-21 - 1980-12-31
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Counter-Blast, 1969
This book designed by Harley Parker is a contemporaneous parody of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist magazine Blast. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Counter-Blast, 1969
This is a parody of Wyndham Lewis' magazine "Blast," with its contents dealing with communication and the Information Age. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Homage to the Square, the Blacks, Ian Hamilton Finlay & Marshall McLuhan, 1968
Printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Homage to the Square, the Blacks, Ian Hamilton Finley & Marshall McLuhan, 1968
Printed on gray paper; the Sackner Archive also has a copy printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Rolywholyover: A Circus, 1993
The prints are photographic reproductions of some of the works in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations, 1967
Flexitype heads [allowing the manipulation and distortion of type] were used in this book in co-operation with Cooper and Beatty. To the knowledge of the Editors of this book, it was the first time that Flexitype has been used in any quantity outside the field of advertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations, 1967
Flexitype heads [allowing the manipulation and distortion of type] were used in this book in co-operation with Cooper and Beatty. To the knowledge of the Editors of this book, it was the first time that Flexitype has been used in any quantity outside the field of advertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968
This is the first edition of this text by the authors of "The Medium is the Massage." It brings together all forms of conflict, political, racial, and religious, into meaningful perspective. It offers ideas and an understanding essential to the "electric age." The ideas presented in this book seem to forecast the information age and even the advent of the Internet. The text is combined with multiple black and white images and includes many relevant quotations in the margins from James Joyce's "Finnagan's Wake." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
