EPISODE · Jan 16, 2020 · 2H 6M
017 - Tom Hück
from Anti- · host Kevin Kelly
Tom Hück is an American Print Warlord http://evilprints.com @evilprints 9:00 - Intro 12:30 - Can’t stand not working 14:00 - Prince’s death making work more urgent 17:00 - Getting into an online fight over John Singer Sargent 18:30 - Kelley Walker CAM controversy - Tom’s article/response 20:10 - Real life rules don’t apply to art 22:00 - The fucking banana duct-taped to the wall 24:40 - “I like athleticism in art.” 26:00 - On Banksy 28:15 - The art world sucks 30:00 - Great art is a marriage of concept & technique 32:30 - Traveling as a youth and seeing art 36:15 - Looking for porn and finding the Tower of London - 40:00 - Growing up in Potosi, Missouri 43:00 - Taking college art classes in high school 48:30 - Finding his style & content 52:00 - Making woodcut prints about his hometown 52:30 - Driving around and selling his work to a museum 53:30 - Story about receiving negative feedback at 12 years old 58:00 - Getting revenge 9 years later 1:03:15 - You can find something good in every shitty piece of art 1:06:15 - Build your life around the art, not the other way around - 1:07:30 - Landfall Press 1:11:45 - Teaching 1:12:30 - First commercial gig working on The Roots “Phrenology” 1:15:00 - Figuring out what to charge 1:18:00 - Speed & whiskey 1:23:00 - Influencing the printmaking world 1:26:00 - The Outlaw Printmakers 1:31:30 - Viewing art in person 1:33:30 - Art is hard to make 1:35:00 - Van Gogh’s suicide 1:40:00 - Catching Tom’s NYC Electric Baloneyland show in 2017 1:45:30 - Archive of work coming out 1:46:30 - Making more affordable work 1:52:00 - Grafik House 1:58:00 - Living in/near Potosi now 2:03:00 - Outro
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