- Paperback: 104 pages
- Publisher: Libro Port; Bilingual edition (November 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 4845711214
- ISBN-13: 978-4845711215
- Product Dimensions: 29.6 x 21.2 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 640 g
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The erotic biomannerism movement is a creature of the cyberage, an expression of technophobia and fear of mutation. The seven artists represented here come from the U.S., France, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland, but they share a Kafkaesque view of the human condition, which they express in twisting, writhing, bulging, disintegrating images of the human form. Inspiration flows from Michelangelo, Dali, da Vinci, Rubens, and Duchamp, as well as Blade Runner, Frankenstein, and Intel.
This volume includes a significant sampling of work from Swiss painter H. R. Giger, one of the first and most important explorers of the style. Through his creation of erotic cyborg women called biomechanoids, which consist of a synthesis of organic bodies and machines, he has pioneered the possibilities of a new aesthetic of erotic metamorphosis. His unique baroque man-machines are so grotesque and refined that they are labeled Gigeresque and are easily recognizable as a significant influence on artistic creativity at the close of the second millennium.
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Wild art, April 10 2000
By Cris Bare - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Biomannerism (Paperback)
This Japanese publication collects several artists in the erotomechanical genre as typified by the works of H.R. Giger. I came across this volume in my perpetual quest for works of Zdislaw Beksinski. Included in this book is a print of his I had previuosly seen in an out-of-print French publication that I have been unable to find. The quality of this publication is generally excellent, however one Beksinski piece had been blanched for some reason. The amusing translations of the bios make for short reading, but the book is really about the art itself. A word of warning: the images in this book are not for the easily disturbed. They are sexual, violent, surreal, and highly imaginative.
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