Questo autore si è fatto notare per un approccio letterario distintivo, caratterizzato da cruda onestà e dall'esplorazione delle correnti più oscure della vita. Le sue opere attingono frequentemente dall'esperienza personale, riflettendo una ricerca di significato nel caos urbano. Arricchisce la sua prosa con uno stile unico, che fa riferimento a un "estetismo francese contorto" che lo distingue.
The collection features Richard Hell's new poetry accompanied by striking images from Christopher Wool. It includes Hell's reflective essay "Falling Asleep," exploring his contemplative views on reality, alongside "Chronicle," a compilation derived from his recent notebooks. This blend of visual art and introspective writing creates a unique exploration of perception and existence.
Peter Schuyff is a fascinating little bastard and he presents a good opportunity for thinking about painting.0Painting is personal. There are no ultimate truths about it. Much of the most perceptive writing about painting, especially new painting, in the last 200 years has been produced by poets?Baudelaire, Rilke, Apollinaire, Ashbery, Ricard?rather than trained?experts? because what there is that?s interesting to say about it is best accessible via the language skills and sophistication and sensitivity to subtleties of perception and consciousness cultivated by poets. I am not a poet, but I almost am, and I claim legitimacy as an art writer by the same token: nobody knows what is interesting in art except the person who can persuade you they do.?? Richard Hell
Here, accompanied by dozens of unique photographs, are the very best of Victor Bockris's infamous interviews, essays, and observations on the stars of downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s. The internationally acclaimed biographer Bockris was there as a witness, friend, collaborator, and co-conspirator. Some of the stars were founding members of Beat or Punk, others were just passing through. But all of them—rockers, rebels, artists, and intellectuals—revealed more to Bockris than they did to any other writer: Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hell, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Debbie Harry, William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards, Terry Southern, Martin Amis, and Susan Sontag. Bockris's conclusion—that Punk owed the Beats a big debt and that the Beats were in turn re-animated by the Punks—is argued from the perspective of someone who was in the thick of it, and who loved every minute of it.
Richard Hell war einer der wichtigsten Figuren in der New Yorker Punk- und Kunstszene Anfang der Siebziger. Mit seiner Band „The Voidoids“ traf er mit dem Song „Blank Generation“ den Nerv einer ganzen Generation. Richard Hell beschreibt seine Begegnungen u. a. mit Susan Sontag, Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, Patty Smith, und es gelingen ihm großartige Porträts.