Friday, 22 April 2016

Chat with Pete

Notes (regarding essay):

To what extent does drug taking influence creativity and the arts?

Research "Romanticism" - drugs and the drugs aesthetic lifestyle

Continuation into 1960s and onwards - the change in the perception of drugs

Link between all examples : Mythology of drug taking lifestyle

Memoirs of an opium taker

3 examples of practitioner through time - do drugs influence? Don't drugs influence? 
Is it just the lifestyle?

Conformist society as opposed to back in the 60's