Happiness: The Case Against
Additional information
| Technique | Polymer-gravure with photo-etching and woodcut |
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| Edition | Edition of 50 |
| Sheet Size | Sheet size: 98.5 x 72.5 cm (38 ¾ x 28 ½ in) |
| Inscription | Signed by the artist on the front, numbered on the reverse |
| Publisher | Published by Manifold Editions, 2017 |
Happiness: The Case Against is part of a new body of work first seen in Harland Miller’s solo exhibition, Tonight We Make History (P.S. I can’t be there) at Blain|Southern, Berlin, in 2016. Miller is well known for his playful reinterpretations of Penguin book covers, but for the Berlin exhibition he incorporated his own designs, taking inspiration from the abstract, geometric covers of popular psychology books of the 1960s and 1970s. Happiness is inspired by an original painting of the same name. For this publication, Miller experimented with different printmaking techniques using polymer-gravure, photo-etching and block printing to build up a painterly, layered surface texture.
