Hates Outta Date 2nd Copy
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About This Work
Harland Miller’s *Hates Outta Date 2nd Copy* exemplifies the artist’s signature fusion of conceptual wit and painterly authority, transforming the familiar grammar of vintage Penguin book covers into a razor-sharp meditation on language, taste, and contemporary malaise. Executed with lush, layered colour and crisp typographic structure, the work stages a compelling tension between hand-made surface and mass-produced design, where the deadpan slogan becomes both confession and cultural critique. Miller’s appropriation of literary branding operates as a form of pop-inflected institutional commentary, interrogating how we consume identity through titles, headlines, and soundbites. At once seductive and subversive, the piece speaks to the volatility of public discourse and the persistence of irony in British contemporary art.
About the Artist
Harland Miller is a writer and artist. Born in Yorkshire, England in 1964, he studied at Chelsea School of Art, graduating in 1988 with an MA. Miller published his first novel Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty, published by Fourth Estate, to critical acclaim in 2000. In the same year he published a...
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