This silkscreen print is part of a series by Harland Miller in which he adopts the image of a Penguin Classics paperback book jacket from the 60s. The painted vertical bands of red either side of the book's title, which signify the genre 'Theatre and Plays', become emotive and textural colour fields here. With their dripping paint and smudgy blurring, they have more in common with the aesthetic of Rothko than the uniformity of a mass-produced paperback.
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