Tom Huck: The Devil is in the Details
Tom Huck: The Devil is in the Details, written by Greg Kessler with a foreword by Monte Beauchamp. Tom is an American printmaker best known for his large-scale satirical woodcuts. Tom is seen as one of the world’s most significant printmakers with a unique story to tell, and his work has been hailed as controversially awesome.
This book is the first retrospective of Hück’s design. It compiles not only his finished work but glimpses into his process and the evolution of his ideas from notebook to, in the case of works such as The Transformation of Brandy Baghead, over fifty square feet of carved wood and paper.
THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS, by Fine Print Small Press.
This is a 12”x12” coffee table book. 336+ pages
Black Burnished Cover Hardbound
ISBN: 979-8-9868274-0-7
Published by Fine Print Small Press - St. Louis
Photography by Chris Ryan of Once Films
Book Design by Jim Harper of Harper’s Bizarre
Edited by Andrew Doty at Editwright
Tom Huck: The Devil is in the Details, written by Greg Kessler with a foreword by Monte Beauchamp. Tom is an American printmaker best known for his large-scale satirical woodcuts. Tom is seen as one of the world’s most significant printmakers with a unique story to tell, and his work has been hailed as controversially awesome.
This book is the first retrospective of Hück’s design. It compiles not only his finished work but glimpses into his process and the evolution of his ideas from notebook to, in the case of works such as The Transformation of Brandy Baghead, over fifty square feet of carved wood and paper.
THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS, by Fine Print Small Press.
This is a 12”x12” coffee table book. 336+ pages
Black Burnished Cover Hardbound
ISBN: 979-8-9868274-0-7
Published by Fine Print Small Press - St. Louis
Photography by Chris Ryan of Once Films
Book Design by Jim Harper of Harper’s Bizarre
Edited by Andrew Doty at Editwright
Tom Huck: The Devil is in the Details, written by Greg Kessler with a foreword by Monte Beauchamp. Tom is an American printmaker best known for his large-scale satirical woodcuts. Tom is seen as one of the world’s most significant printmakers with a unique story to tell, and his work has been hailed as controversially awesome.
This book is the first retrospective of Hück’s design. It compiles not only his finished work but glimpses into his process and the evolution of his ideas from notebook to, in the case of works such as The Transformation of Brandy Baghead, over fifty square feet of carved wood and paper.
THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS, by Fine Print Small Press.
This is a 12”x12” coffee table book. 336+ pages
Black Burnished Cover Hardbound
ISBN: 979-8-9868274-0-7
Published by Fine Print Small Press - St. Louis
Photography by Chris Ryan of Once Films
Book Design by Jim Harper of Harper’s Bizarre
Edited by Andrew Doty at Editwright
A thought leader and titan in the design world, Hück’s woodcuts arrived at a time when American printmaking had grown moribund and stale after decades of decline. Hück and his fellow Outlaw Printmakers constituted the vanguard of a new generation of artists who embraced a Medieval art form and lashed out with social satire, irony, and proclivity to the offensive.
Tom Hück: The Devil is in The Details, details the first two decades of Hücks work and lays the groundwork for monumental works to come.
“Tom’s work is low-run and epic,” says Chris Ryan, Co-Founder at Fine Print Small Press. “Humongous pieces that are printed in very small quantities and are usually acquired by museums, galleries, and collectors, which make them hard for many people to see. This makes it, in some cases, the only place for people to get up close and personal with his work.”
Huck’s illustrations have appeared in publications such as The Village Voice, The Riverfront Times, and the Minneapolis City Pages. Hück has also worked with many music acts over the years, most notably The Roots “Phrenology” album cover art, as well as t-shirt and poster designs for Motörhead, A Perfect Circle, TILTS, Mastodon, and many others.
The book is launching at Print Week at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, with a signing and workshops with Huck in Late October. October 30th, 2022, along with a full print demonstration at the event at the Mezzanine Galleries.
About Tom Huck: Tom Hück (born 1971) is an American printmaker best known for his large-scale satirical woodcuts. He lives and works in Park Hills, Missouri, 60miles south of St. Louis, where he runs his own press Evil Prints @ Spiderhole Studio. His work is influenced by Albrecht Dürer, José Guadalupe Posada, R. Crumb, and Honoré Daumier. Huck’s woodcut prints are included in numerous public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, Spencer Museum of Art, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Fogg Art Museum, Michael C. Carlos Museum, and The New York Public Library. Huck has been represented by David Krut Art Projects in New York, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri. Beginning in October 2017 Huck’s gallery representation is C. G. Boerner in New York.