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Vocabulary Satire Gonzo Journalism Dadaism 1st Amendment ACLU Surrealism “I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.” Teacher Resource Sheet October 5, 2019 - January 20, 2020 | Wednesday 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Thursday – Sunday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. A Retrospective Quick Facts about the Artist Born May 15, 1936 in Wallasey, Cheshire, UK, and raised first in Liverpool, then northern Wales Artist, Illustrator, Writer, Composer, Social and Political Critic Learned Technical Drawing in the Royal Air Force (1954-6) Studied at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts (1960s) Illustrated articles and books for Hunter S. Thompson after they met in 1970, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Won a First Amendment case with the ACLU over the “Raging Bitch” beer label, commissioned by Flying Dog Brewery Suggested Guiding Questions How does political cartooning fit into the concept of art and aesthetics? What is satire and why do you think Ralph Steadman uses satire? What is the difference between reporting and Gonzo journalism? What is your favorite piece and why? What is something you still don’t know about the artist that you want to? Artist’s Historical Content Dadaism – an artistic movement in modern art that started around World War I with the purpose of highlighting the mean- inglessness of the modern world and influenced surrealism, pop art, and punk rock. “The Satire Boom” - A community of satirists, including writers and performers, who emerged in England in the 1960s, including Peter Cook and David Frost. The “Sixties” - started in London with mini skirts, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and became a world-wide anti-estab- lishment youth movement. Protests against the Vietnam War and Nixon, and the Watergate break in and hearings were part of this in the U.S. Gonzo Journalism - Founded by Hunter S. Thompson in 1970 consisting of energetic, first-person, drug-fueled steam of consciousness writing, made visual by Ralph Steadman. jsma.uoregon.edu • 541.346.3027 EO/AA/ADA institution committed to cultural diversity For more information about the exhibition and associated programs: https://jsma.uoregon.edu/Steadman
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Vocabulary Satire
Gonzo Journalism
Dadaism
1st Amendment
ACLU
Surrealism
“I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.”
Teacher Resource SheetOctober 5, 2019 - January 20, 2020 | Wednesday 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Thursday – Sunday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
A R e t r o s p e c t i v e
Quick Facts about the ArtistBorn May 15, 1936 in Wallasey, Cheshire, UK, and raised first in Liverpool, then northern Wales
Artist, Illustrator, Writer, Composer, Social and Political Critic
Learned Technical Drawing in the Royal Air Force (1954-6)
Studied at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts (1960s)
Illustrated articles and books for Hunter S. Thompson after they met in 1970, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Won a First Amendment case with the ACLU over the “Raging Bitch” beer label, commissioned by Flying Dog Brewery
Suggested Guiding QuestionsHow does political cartooning fit into the concept of art and aesthetics?
What is satire and why do you think Ralph Steadman uses satire?
What is the difference between reporting and Gonzo journalism?
What is your favorite piece and why?
What is something you still don’t know about the artist that you want to?
Artist’s Historical ContentDadaism – an artistic movement in modern art that started around World War I with the purpose of highlighting the mean-inglessness of the modern world and influenced surrealism, pop art, and punk rock.
“The Satire Boom” - A community of satirists, including writers and performers, who emerged in England in the 1960s, including Peter Cook and David Frost.
The “Sixties” - started in London with mini skirts, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and became a world-wide anti-estab-lishment youth movement. Protests against the Vietnam War and Nixon, and the Watergate break in and hearings were part of this in the U.S.
Gonzo Journalism - Founded by Hunter S. Thompson in 1970 consisting of energetic, first-person, drug-fueled steam of consciousness writing, made visual by Ralph Steadman.
jsma.uoregon.edu • 541.346.3027 EO/AA/ADA institution committed to cultural diversity
For more information about the exhibition and associated programs: https://jsma.uoregon.edu/Steadman
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Additional ResourcesSteadman, R. (2006). The joke’s over: Bruised memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and me (1st U.S. ed.). Orlando: Harcourt.
Thompson, H., Ellwood, Alison, Gibney, Alex, Depp, Johnny, Schwartz, David, Alberti, Maryse,...Jigsaw Productions, presenter. (2008). Gonzo: The life and work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Los Angeles, CA: Magnolia Home Entertainment.
Thompson, H. (1996). Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, and other American stories. NewYork: Modern Library.
Paul, Lucy (Producer) & Paul, Charlie (Director). (2012). For No Good Reason [MotionPicture]. England: Sony Pictures Classics.
Links
https://jsma.uoregon.edu/SteadmanProgramshttps://www.ralphsteadman.comhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm1358516/
