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Like Bacon or Goya, Steadman's work can be unsettling. Often described as grotesque, bestial, cynical and disturbing, his work nonetheless serves as a poignant, critical, satiric and unapologetic affront to our society. Paired with HST it's magic to capture the frenzy chaos we imagine and transports us. I enjoyed reading Steadman's writing, but was more captivated by the layout of images in this well organized book. Probably the most interesting/dark is "The Plague & the Moonflowers." Well worth...
To my mind, Steadman's work is very reminiscent of Stephen Gammel's truly impressive, deeply effective illustrations, most notably found in a befitting black and white format in the Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark trilogy.
Was amazed by this book
I love love love this book and the art in it. Pure genius.Even if you don't agree with every single written statement or every piece of artwork expressed by Ralph Steadman, you can't deny the genius and the creativity behind every single work exhibited here.
A great illustrator. Got this and other Steadman books used, and refer to them frequently for ideas, attitude, inspiration.
my favorite tabletop reference. I am mystified by steadman's imagery.
Excerpt: Steadman on Steadman interview (archives)In February, writer Sally Vincent sat down in the home studio of artist Ralph Steadman, 70, in Kent, England for a cover story interview. Below is an excerpt of that conversation, available in full in Issue 26: The U.K. IssueStop Smiling: You stopped drawing politicians a while back. Have you ever been tempted to start again?Ralph Steadman: I stopped in 1987 because it felt indecent to draw someone you wouldn’t ask home for supper. But that was j...
Disappointed this book is as close as I can get. Amazing illustrations and insanely inspiring to creation of something real and the idea that it takes collaboration to create greatness. Besides great art, this book contains some great poetic scribblings of Steadman and a few great stories of his friendship with Hunter S Thompson, who happens to write the hilarious forward.
outstanding book.
Great images
God bless the public education system for putting a copy of this in my school library in Junior High
Too good
My oldest son was a Hunter S. Thompson fan back in the day so this lavishly illustrated and beautifully printed glossy book of the art and reminiscences of his frequent co-collaborator, Ralph Steadman, seemed a natural Christmas present for him about 15 years ago. I remember there being a big stack of these on the bargain shelf at Barnes & Noble for $9.99 back when these were going for $20 - $30 each on Ebay, so I said, "What the heck" and bought all five they had. I gave one to him, kept one fo...
Ralph Steadman is most well known for illustrating various writings by Hunter S. Thompson. This large volume is a generous survey of his unique artwork from the 60s to the 90s. Steadman's trademark is in creating work that forces you to look at it by way of shock, whether that be by sketching obscenely unglamorous ink caricatures of his subjects or by creating grotesque humanoid figure collages using textbook anatomical studies of bones and muscles coupled with garishly splattered red paint. Thi...
This is one of the greatest compendiums of contemporary art I own. It has occupied pride-of-place on my coffee table since two hours after it arrived (had to go through it first), which means every visitor to my home sees it immediately upon sitting down. Reactions have been mixed-nobody disagrees as to Mr. Steadman's talent level, though quite a few have wished that he would choose different subjects to skewer with his warped pen. On the other hand, those who have been introduced to the work of...
This book makes me so fucking jealous. I cannot stand to read it any more. I love Ralph Styeadman's work. he is among my top 3 favorite artists of all time, but his work makes me so fucking jealous!!!!!!
beautifully complied and thoughtfully written this is a must have for fans of either Steadman or Thompson. The reproduction are top notch.
This is a nicely printed book and has a lot of his work for the price. It also has a lot to read with it, that is pretty interesting if you didn't know a lot about Steadman or Thompson.It gets 4/5 because I'm a big Steadman fan and I feel like a few of my favourite drawings weren't in there. Some I haven't seen was in there though, which made up for it.
Ralph Steadman, el cool of the squirting fountain pen. I Highly recommend this great artist. From the 'Grapes of Ralph', to his work on the 'Animal Farm', and all the wine bottles and beer bottle labels he has painted through the years.
A collection of work by Hunter S. Thompson's artist and cohort, Ralph Steadman. Beautiful and compelling images abound in this beautiful collection.
