Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists

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00:05:33 This is what it must be like to mainline a drug

00:10:09 If you're interested in it, then use it.

00:14:23 My idea about the Hyde Park Art Center was that it would be a place

00:17:35 So he was walking into a room that he hardly knew anybody.

00:21:26 I was already interested in the idea of these little images

00:26:29 Made one grateful, not for escape, but for any legitimate reason to have a good time.

00:30:15 either they thought about that or was just something that was kind of a natural choice.

00:34:37 in all its varied and most vulgar forms.

00:40:14 Conventional histories can sometimes reduce complex circumstances to mere strands.

00:44:32 I mean you tell me I gotta be a slob and I'd just soon as shoot myself.

00:48:20 To reach people's nervous systems.

00:51:47 I just became very disenchanted

00:55:02 although it was like oil and water as far as I was concerned.

00:58:43 You did feel that he actually was...

01:03:08 *

01:07:57 Instead I found myself in the midst of a rally for radical political action.

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01:17:58 You show the work in context, group context

01:22:04 They had become so entrenched so quickly

01:27:35 And slowly, but surely, they were discovered by younger artists

01:30:43 what she was saying is "You're out in the world every day

01:34:57 he's never not been an important artist in Chicago, you know?

07:04:07 associations I had with artists