Art & Design: Hannah Dykstra | Script: Jeff Kruse
Genre: Biography | Length: 160 Illustrated Pages | Publisher: Edgar Miller Legacy
PRESS
“A Total Work of Art is also a stunner… Dykstra's drawings are beautifully detailed, thoughtful, charming and evocative. [This] spectacular new book... will go a long way in bringing [Edgar Miller’s] rare talent into our present frenetic times.”
— the Chicago Tribune
“Miller, a true Chicago original, has been called the city's ‘forgotten Renaissance man.’ A new graphic novel seeks to tell his story, highlighting two of the remarkable "handmade homes" that give sparkle to Old Town… the book offers a visually oriented, lay reader-level look at a versatile and prolific artist whose distinctive style melds modernity and tradition, and whose work still delights and astonishes those who encounter it.”
— Newcity Design
Synopsis
A Total Work of Art: The Story of Edgar Miller explores the life of the prolific and multi-talented Chicago artist Edgar Miller. The story starts in his childhood on the Miller family homestead around the turn of the 20th century in Idaho Falls. The story follows Miller’s time as an enterprising young artist who designed the architecturally fearless Handmade Homes during the 1920s and ‘30s, all the way to his participation in preserving the buildings in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood in the 1980s and ‘90s.
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