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Harland Miller Armageddon Is It Too Much To Ask Polymer-gravure with photo-etching and block-printing on paper

Armageddon Is It Too Much To Ask Harland Miller

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Harland Miller’s Armageddon Is It Too Much To Ask? employs polymer-gravure with photo-etching and block printing to produce a limited edition of 50 prints. This noteworthy print from 2017 shifts the focus away from the artist’s usual centrepiece text to a colourful abstract illustration, making the words serve a secondary purpose.

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HARLAND MILLER, ARMAGEDDON IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK?, SIGNED POLYMER-GRAVURE WITH PHOTO-ETCHING AND BLOCK PRINTING, EDITION OF 50, 2017

Harland Miller’s 2017 print, Armageddon Is It Too Much To Ask?, takes inspiration from popular psychology books, self-help manuals and social science publications from the 1960s and 1970s. Characterised by their bold and abstract covers, these books aspired to aid disorders. Their distinct, colourful geometric designs sought to counteract the heavy medical content, while also mirroring the style of contemporary paintings.

The artist utilises various printmaking techniques in Armageddon Is It Too Much To Ask?. By employing polymer-gravure, photo-etching and block printing, Miller achieves a more graphic and superimposed finish. While at first glance the work might seem one dimensional, its main elements have in fact been given a multilayered appearance.

The disposition of the textual and the figurative components in this print have been revised, and the title no longer occupies the central panel. As opposed to the artist’s earlier adaptations of Penguin book covers, the observer is unlikely to be intimately familiarised with the source material utilised in this work. As a result, a different kind of relationship is formed between form, text and colour palette. In effect, the title is actually activated by the bold colour composition in the centre. A corresponding strategy and structure can be detected in Miller’s Happiness: The Case Against.

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ABOUT HARLAND MILLER

Harland Miller is a British writer and artist, born in Yorkshire in 1964, best known for producing a series of paintings based on Penguin book covers, including International Lonely Guy and Fuck Art Let’s Dance. Miller’s work explores the relationship between words and images. His paintings, sculptures and mix-media artworks combine the two to comment on the frequent disconnect between representation and reality. Learn more about Harland Miller.