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Title: Hr Giger's Retrospective: 1964-1984 by H. R. Giger, Kathi Christen, Adrienne Theimer, Ernst Fuchs ISBN: 1-883398-29-0 Publisher: Morpheus Intl Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: For art fans, not horror fans and "Alien" fans
Comment: I didn't like this book at all. I expected paintings of aliens and supernatural creatures. Instead I got art that's nonsense, from my point of view. The paintings look nice, but they're meaningless to me. I think that Giger needs better ideas for the subject matter of his paintings. Also, Giger's obsession with sex seems juvenile to me.
One of the few things I liked in the book was a sketch of a kid ringing a doorbell while another kid drops a guillotine blade toward the neck of the woman who stuck her head out the window to see who was at the door.
This book includes the two "Necronom" paintings that inspired the makers of "Alien" to hire Giger as designer of the alien, but if you're looking for artwork related to "Alien," there's a separate book for that. I think there is also a book that covers all of Giger's filmwork including Alien, Poltergeist II, and Species.
Rating: 5
Summary: Giger on a budget
Comment: Very good Giger book for those who can't afford the pricey ones.
Rating: 5
Summary: A strong collection by a great artist.
Comment: When I bought this book, I was expecting it to be full of Giger's "as seen on TV" biomechanical art. And yes, those black-and-gray conflations of living tissue, buildings, and machines are well-represented, and it's great stuff-- cables, bones, human forms or parts of human forms, chitin, metal. The liquid, glossy motifs Giger uses are much more effective on a well-printed page than on a CRT, and it seems like every time I look at them, there's another nuance or detail or set of teeth or something that I hadn't noticed.
But there's also a lot of stuff in here I hadn't seen before. The "Totems" toward the very end actually affected me more strongly than any of the classic biomechanisms.
If you know what you're getting into, this is a good way to get examples of several types of work Giger's done besides the Alien/Species style. (He does have some all-biomechanical books as well, if that's your sole interest.)
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Title: H.R. Giger's Necronomicon by H. R. Giger, Clive Barker ISBN: 0962344729 Publisher: Morpheus Intl Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $69.50 |
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Title: HR Giger by H. R. Giger, Stanislav Grof ISBN: 3822817236 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: H.R. Giger by Taschen, H. R. Giger ISBN: 3822814288 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Www Hr Giger Com by H. R. Giger, Leslie Barany ISBN: 3822885673 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Giger's Alien by H. R. Giger ISBN: 1883398088 Publisher: Morpheus Intl Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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