Jessica Dawson, JD255593 BA (Hons) Illustration – Level 5 Context of Practice 2 Final Essay Plan COP2 Essay Structure
TITLE: DO PSYCHADELIC SUBSTANCES ENHANCE CREATIVITY AND HOW HAVE SOCIAL STIGMAS INFLUENCED THE ACCEPTANCE OF DRUG USE IN CREATIVE CULTURE? INTRODUCTION: • WHAT ARE PSYCHADELICS • WHERE DID THE TERM COME FROM / “COINED” TERM? • THE PSYCHADELIC EXPERIENCE • “TUNE IN, ….” TIMOTHY LEARY • RELATE BACK TO QUESTION: - WHAT AM I ASKING - WHY IS THIS RELEVANT - LEAD INTO “SETTING SCENE” IN NEXT SECTION SECTION 1: - THE HISTORY OF PSYCHADELIC / 1960’S • ALBERT HOFFMAN & LSD – MOST REGCOGNISED / STUDIED DRUG IN WORLD • POST WORLD WAR II STATE • CIA & MKULTRA • NIXON, THE GOVERNEMENT & NEW LAWS – BAN / WAR ON DRUGS • THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT, Psychedelia Counterculture • NEW SCIENCE (EXAMPLES), NEW ART / CREATIVITY / MOVEMENTS (EXAMPLES)– COMING TOGETHER AS ONE IN A UNITED GENERATION OF POST WAR CHILDREN COMING OF AGE SECTION 2: - LAWS & RISE IN STIGMAS, IN THE BEGINNING & WHAT THIS MEANT • BAN SCIENCE (SAY NO TO DRUGS – WAR ON DRUGS CAMPAIGN – NIXON) • BAN CREATIVITY (STIGMAS NOW ATTACHED TO THE ART DEVELOPING OF THE TIME – ALWAYS ASSOCIATED / CONNOTATIONS OF THE BAD PRESS AND GOVERNMENT LAWS BY ASSOCIATION) • LIGHTLY TOUCH ON THESE 2 (EXAMPLES / ONE OFF QUOTES / GENERAL INFO / MORE INFORMATIVE DATA STUDY RESULTS TO SHOW IMPACT MORE THAN THE OPINION IN WHICH THIS ESSAY IS LEANING TOWARDS) SECTION 3: - STIGMAS - ART • COMON STIGMAS DETAILED - EXAMPLES / REPORTS / INTERVIEWS / QUOTES / BAD PRESS SURROUNDING DRUGS - EXAMPLES / INTERVIEWS / REPORTS / QUOTES / BAD PRESS SURROUNDING ART / CREATIVITY
Jessica Dawson, JD255593 BA (Hons) Illustration – Level 5 Context of Practice 2 Final Essay Plan
SECTION 4: - PSYCHEDELICS & CREATIVITY • KEY STUDIES • KEY QUOTES ABOUT ARTWORKS • WHAT IS PSYCHADELIC ART - DEFINE • DOES IT JUST STOP HERE? – OTHER INFLUENCES DRUGS HAVE HAD IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY – MUSIC, TECHNOLOGY, WRITERS ETC • NEW STUDIES EXPLORING LSD AND CREATIVITY - ISAAC ABRAMS ACCOUNT - EXAMPLES OF ABRAMS WORK (FIG.1) : “All things are one thing”- 1966 - SOURCE: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/use-your-illusions COMPARE / ANALYSIS OF ARTWORKS SECTION: • WHAT THE ARTISTS SAYS ABOUT HIS WORK • WHAT THE ARTISTS SAYS ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES • WHAT THE ARTIST SAYS ABOUT THE PROCESS • WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE WORK • QUOTES • ANALYSE THE ARTWORK • COMPOSITION / STYLE / SUBJECT / INFLUENCE • PRECONSEPTIONS / BAD PRESS (INTERVIEWS) - ARTWORK A (FIG.2): - UNKNOWN - ARTWORK C (FIG.3): - ALEX GREY, Transfiguration (FIG.1 IS ALREADY MENTIONED EARLIER ON IN ESSAY – ISAAC ABRAHMS) - SUMMARISE SECTION • RELATE BACK TO ART / ARTISTS / STATEMENTS / QUOTES IN THIS SECTION SECTION 5: - ARTWORK IN RELATION TO ESSAY QUESTION SUMMARY • SUMMARISE ARTWORK SECTION – MORE REFINED • RELATE BACK TO PRECONCEPTIONS / STIGMAS • RELATE BACK TO MEDICAL ADVANCES • BEGIN TO ABOLISH / CHALLENGE NEGATIVITE OPINIONS OF THE DRUG USAGE / DEA / GOVERNMET / LAW FACTS / PROPOGANDA • BEGIN TO ABOLISH / CHALLENGE NEGATIVITE OPINIONS ABOUT THE ART • SEMI ROUND OF WHAT THIS COULD ALL MEAN
Jessica Dawson, JD255593 BA (Hons) Illustration – Level 5 Context of Practice 2 Final Essay Plan
SECTION 6: - WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF PSYCHEDELICS? • SILICON VALLEY - STEVE JOBS QUOTE? • CHANGES IN LAW - CANNABIS - MEDICAL TRIALS & RESEARCH - AMSTERDAM • MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS - PSYCHOACTIVE TREATMENT MENTAL HEALTH USING LSD / MUSHROOMS - DEPRESSION (TED TALK QUOTE? / STUDY INFO? / DATA? / RESULTS • SEMI CONCLUSION / ROUND UP • WITH THIS CAN STIGMAS IN CREATIVE CIRCLES CHANGE ALSO? • RELATE BACK TO MAIN QUESTION / HEAD TOWARDS ANSWERING IT CONCLUSION: • GET AROUND TO ANSERING MY QUESTION - RELATE BACK TO IT - FINAL ROUND UP QUOTE • EINSTEIN? • LEARY? • MCKENNAH? • JOBS? • CREATIVITY? - END ON FINAL ANSWER TO MAIN ESSAY QUESTION NOTES: • Societies acceptance of psychedelics and the impact on creative culture heavily influenced by the preconceived notion of the past • With medical change comes change in social acceptance • A new rise in hippie sub-culture movement? • In terms of art and creativity – all subjective – no matter under the influence or not • Yes enhancements to colour / line / experience when under the influence – but any psychedelic experience can be described as a profound experience and nothing to say this is any different to any other type of profound experience accepted as influencing “successful” “good” art in other circles. • Relate back to main essay question • With the announcement of the psychoactive substances bill comes further confusion surrounding the benefit of psychedelic substances - especially as trials are now being carried out in medicine and psychiatry • What does this mean for creativity? A one shot pill? Or just the appreciation of the substances and the positive impact they can have whilst expanding ones mind • End on final quote? “Turn on, tune in, drop out?” MCKENNAH – something striking and a fitting sum up. *************************************************************************
BIBLIOGRAPHY: - ORDER A – Z, THEN IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE - USE WORD REFERENCING - DON’T FORGET CITATIONS THROUGHOUT ESSAY • BOOKS • ACADEMIC JOURNALS • ONLINE • ARTWORK / CREATIVE FIGURES & ARTISTS
Jessica Dawson, JD255593 BA (Hons) Illustration – Level 5 Context of Practice 2 Final Essay Plan