Archive
Counterblast
- Artist/Creator
- Date
- 1954
- ID #
- 11.0.0.181
- Level of Description
- Item
Object Description
Item is a photostat copy pamphlet created by Marshall McLuhan as a response to Wyndam Lewis' 'Blast'. Item includes a concrete poetry style poem critiquing contemporary Canadian culture, focusing particularly on the Massey Report, a document that grew out of the Massey Commission undertaken by the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts as an attempt to assess the current state of the arts and culture in Canada. Item also includes short critical essays.
Physical Description
- Physical Extent
- 1 pamphlet ; 29 x 22 cm.
- Material Type
- Textual record, Graphic material
History
- Collection
- Belkin Archives collection
- Credit Line
- –
- Related Exhibitions
- –
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