Why is Who Care Wins important?

Miller’s choice of vibrant, bold colours (red, pink and blue) to form the backdrop of the Who Cares Wins prints, reflects how colour can influence the tone of an artwork. The bright colours chime with the more upbeat book title. Miller’s more ironic and dark-humoured titles are often accompanied by dark dust jackets. The technique is known as colour coding. Miller was originally inspired by the way the Penguin books were colour-coded based on genre. He noticed there was a link between image and words, as the book’s colour affected the perception of its title. Miller develops this, exploring how colour can influence mood, using bright and warm colours for the more light-hearted titles in the Penguin series, versus the dark and cooler colours for the titles which have a more sombre tone. As well as Ed Ruscha, Miller’s experimentation with and interest in colour is clearly influenced by Mark Rothko’s Colour Field paintings. Indeed, Miller himself is an obvious influence on artists such as The Connor Brothers & James McQueen who have clearly been inspired by his work.

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Who Cares Wins by Harland Miller Background & Meaning

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Cares Wins

Who Cares Wins depicts a book cover with Harland Miller’s name assuming the role of author. Miller is best known for his Penguin prints, which have been described by novelist Michael Bracewell as “wittily deadpan, punkish and aphoristic.” Who Cares Wins is one of the more positive examples of the series, playing on the well known phrase 'Who Dares Wins'.

Meaning & Analysis

Printed in a number of variations, including a special 2020 blue NHS edition, Miller’s Who Cares Wins is a staple within the Penguin Jackets series. Each version similarly in appropriates the familiar book-cover format, with the eponymous title scrawled in bold, black, capitalised letters.

This Miller Print also uses photorealist rendering of the dust jacket through using a high-resolution digital photograph, which he then layers paint over the top of to give the impression that the print is an authentic, real, second-hand book. This only adds to the sense of nostalgia conveyed by the series, for those who, like Miller himself, grew up collecting these classic novels.

Who Cares Wins is one of the more positive examples of the broader Penguin series, that, while still being slightly ironic, it is lighter in tone than the darker humour exemplified in titles such as Heroin, It’s What Your Right Arm’s For.

Miller’s choice of vibrant, bold colours (red, pink and blue) to form the backdrop of the Who Cares Wins prints, reflects how colour can influence the tone of an artwork. The bright colours chime with the more upbeat book title. Miller’s more ironic and dark-humoured titles are often accompanied by dark dust jackets. The technique is known as colour coding. Miller was originally inspired by the way the Penguin books were colour-coded based on genre. He noticed there was a link between image and words, as the book’s colour affected the perception of its title. Miller develops this, exploring how colour can influence mood, using bright and warm colours for the more light-hearted titles in the Penguin series, versus the dark and cooler colours for the titles which have a more sombre tone. As well as Ed Ruscha, Miller’s experimentation with and interest in colour is clearly influenced by Mark Rothko’s Colour Field paintings. Indeed, Miller himself is an obvious influence on artists such as The Connor Brothers & James McQueen who have clearly been inspired by his work.
If you're looking to sell art by Harland Miller, click the link and we can help. We employ a number of techniques and practices in order to give a realistic and achievable valuation on any art listed on myartbroker.com. We analyse the demand for the work in question, take into consideration previous sales and auction valuations, we assess the current gallery valuation and monitor the current deals taking place via MyArtBroker every day. We regularly advise sellers on a price bracket for their artwork completely free of charge.