Harland Miller (n. 1964) es un artista y escritor británico conocido por su característica fusión de texto e imagen, sobre todo a través de sus pinturas a gran escala que reinterpretan las portadas clásicas de los libros de la editorial Penguin. Nacido en Yorkshire, Inglaterra, Miller estudió en el Chelsea College of Art de Londres, donde completó tanto su licenciatura como su máster en 1988. Tras finalizar sus estudios, pasó sus años de formación viviendo y trabajando en Nueva York, Berlín y París.
Las inclinaciones literarias de Miller quedan patentes en sus inicios como novelista. En 2000 publicó su primera novela, Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty, una historia ambientada en el Yorkshire de los años 80 que narra el viaje de un joven protagonista junto a un imitador de David Bowie. Ese mismo año publicó At First I Was Afraid, I Was Petrified, una novela corta que explora el trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo, inspirada en una colección de fotografías Polaroid que mostraban los mandos de un horno girados a la posición de «apagado».
Tras pasar de la literatura al arte visual, Miller saltó a la fama con su serie Penguin Book Covers, iniciada a principios de la década de 2000. Estas obras presentan títulos satíricos y a menudo melancólicos, como «Death: What’s in It for Me?» y «York, So Good They Named It Once», representados con el clásico diseño de las ediciones de bolsillo de Penguin. Al apropiarse de este formato tan familiar, Miller difumina los límites entre el arte elevado y la cultura popular, invitando al espectador a reflexionar sobre temas como la identidad, la nostalgia y las normas sociales.
Más allá de la serie Penguin, la obra de Miller incluye las «Letter Paintings», en las que aísla palabras sueltas o acrónimos como «LUV» y «ACE», inspirándose en los manuscritos iluminados y la tipografía moderna. Su serie «Hell» yuxtapone audaces declaraciones textuales con campos de color vibrantes, explorando temas existenciales con su característico ingenio. Las influencias estilísticas de Miller abarcan el expresionismo abstracto y el arte pop, con guiños a artistas como Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha y Robert Rauschenberg.
La obra de Miller se ha expuesto a nivel internacional, incluyendo exposiciones individuales en las galerías White Cube de Londres, París y Hong Kong. En 2020, la York Art Gallery acogió «Harland Miller: York, So Good They Named It Once», una retrospectiva que puso de relieve el vínculo del artista con sus raíces en Yorkshire.
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Murder - We've All Done It
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Death, What’s in it for Me?
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International Lonely Guy
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Who Cares Wins
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International Lonely Gal - Mon Histoire
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Grimsby
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Plan B
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Murder - We've All Done It
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There's No Business Like No Business
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Who Cares Wins
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Murder - We've All Done it
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This is Where its Fuckin At - Least it Used To Be
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Whitby - The Self Catering Years Vol. II
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Narcissist Seeks Similar
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You Can Rely On Me. I'll Always Let You Down
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Don’t Let The Bastards Cheer You Up
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Blonde But Not Forgotten
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You Are No Longer A Part of My Life by Medical Opinion
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RAGS TO POLYESTER - MY STORY
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This Is Where It's Fucking At
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Who Cares Wins
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I'm So Fucking Hard--Ernest Hemingway
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Death, What’s in it for Me?
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The Me I Never Knew
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I'll Never Forget What I Can't Remember
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Don't Let the Bastards Cheer You Up
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Thought After Filthy Thought
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Narcissist Seeks Similar (small)
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Hell... It's Only Forever 1 (large)
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Don't Let the Bastards Cheer You Up
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LUV (large format)
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Armageddon: Is It Too Much To Ask? (large)
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Ignore All Alien Orders
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WHATS ALL THE HUBBUB - BUB
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Bridlington - Ninety Million Miles From the Sun
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Happiness: The Case Against (large)
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Too Cool To Lose
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Incurable Romantic Seeks Dirty Filthy Whore
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Overcoming Optimism
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Happiness: The Case Against
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Hell…It's Only Forever (large)
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Hell…It's Only Forever 1
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Armageddon: Is It Too Much To Ask? (Small)
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Incurable Romantic Seeks Dirty Filthy Whore
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Gateshead Revisited
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Heroin, It’s What Your Right Arm’s For
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Hell...It's Only Forever 1