Hot and Cold: The Works of Richard Hell Book

Since he first came to public attention in the 1970s, Richard Hell has made a spectacular if specialized reputation for himself in every conceivable medium--from music, painting, and photography, to fashion, design, and writing. A man with a vision, Hell was the Prophet of Punk: the originator of the spiked haircut; ripped, drawn-on, safety-pinned clothes; and the seminal punk anthems ?Love Comes in Sputs? and ?(I Belong to the) Blank Generation.? For the last two decades Hell?s work has appeared steadily in the widest range of media: poems and notebooks in literary magazines and small-press books; essays in periodicals from Spin to GQ to The Portable Lower East Side; song lyrics in CD booklets; as well as photos, drawings, and paintings on the walls of small New York galleries. On the pages of Hot and Cold, Hell?s multifarious work is finally gathered under one cover. The book is less a ?collection? or an anthology, and more an astonishing cohesion of the various media that ink on paper can comprise. Just like old times, Hell will blow your mind. ________________________________________________________________________Read More