Psychopts; Richard Hell, Christopher Wool (Signed First Edition)

This artist s book emerged from a joint project between the writer/musician Richard Hell and the painter Christopher Wool and focuses on their mutual interest in experiences associated with reading. The authors create images using a selection of word pairings that are both conceptually estranged yet subliminally connected. The result is by turns a reading and a non-reading book which balances precariously between the worlds of rational ordered sense and the realm of polymorphous chaotic association.

Richard Hell is a musician and writer residing in New York. He was a seminal figure during the emergence of punk in the 1970s, leading up to the release of the influential album Blank Generation (1977) by Richard Hell and the Voidoids. He retired from music in 1984 to devote himself to writing. He is the author of two novels, Go Now, and Godlike, as well as a number of other books. Christopher Wool is an artist living and working in New York City who makes paintings and prints using diverse media. He has published a variety of artist books featuring works with paint, print, Xerox and photography. His work has been widely shown nationally and internationally and is part of permanent collections at the MoMA, New York, the Tate Modern, London, Kunsthalle Basel, and Centre Pompidou, Paris, amongst others.