HENRY MILLER (American 1891-1980) TWO HAND PAINTED ADVERTISEMENTS, "Who is Henry Miller?," FOR NEW DIRECTIONS, MID 1960s, ink and gouache on Crescent Quality Boards cardboard, each on a white ground and hand inscribed, the calligraphy in a Filmotype style. 22" x 14" Note: "If You Have Never Read Him, the Most Exciting and Awaking Literary Experience of the Day Lies in Store for You. The Books of Henry Miller are Definitely Not for Schoolgirls, for Suburban Wives who loved Anthony Adverse, For Readers Who Hate to think, For Readers who Accept the Opinions of the Hacks Masquerading As Literary Critics who toute for the Commercial Publishers in the Press or those who Automatically Believe that a Book is Good Because It is a Best Seller. Miller's Books Are Welcomed By People who Like Intellectual Fireworks, By those who Don't think American Life is Perfect and by those who Have A Sense of Relation to the Great Literature of the Past and LOok for Its counterpoint in the Present. [sic]" "Iconoclast, Prophet, Poet, Painter, Philosopher, Acute Observer and Recorder of the Vagaries of His Fellow Humans, Severe Critic of Modern Civilization, Partisan of the Underdog, Champion of Frank Expression, Explorer of New Realms of Feeling - Henry Miller is a Writer Like No other writer Living today. He cannot Be Explained or criticized in the Usual terms. He must be Read to be Understood." - New Directions.[sic]Each work an example of the artist's typical stream of consciousness style of writing. The calligraphy attributed to the artist and author's own hand, the pieces are unusual ephemera capturing a profound moment in the writer's career. Provenance: Collection of Kasey Rhodes, Houston, Texas.

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