- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Morpheus International; 1 edition (Nov 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1883398290
- ISBN-13: 978-1883398293
- Product Dimensions: 28.1 x 20.9 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 558 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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More than 150 artworks, spanning 20 years in the career of the world's most renowned artist of the fantastical and the surreal, are gathered in one volume, rich with detail and color. Carefully rendered reproductions of Giger's best paintings are accompanied by his own commentary. 70 color illus. 75 b&w illus. 25 b&w photos.
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In order to blow away the utterly black dust of the underworld, which covers everything, Giger uses the sharp spray of an airbrush. Read the first page
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In order to blow away the utterly black dust of the underworld, which covers everything, Giger uses the sharp spray of an airbrush. Read the first page
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1.0 out of 5 stars
For art fans, not horror fans and "Alien" fans,
By David "Laymon Fan" (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: H. R. Giger's Retrospective: 1964-1984 (Paperback)
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.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Giger on a budget,
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This review is from: H. R. Giger's Retrospective: 1964-1984 (Paperback)
Very good Giger book for those who can't afford the pricey ones.
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A strong collection by a great artist.,
By R.D. Hight (Kelso, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: H. R. Giger's Retrospective: 1964-1984 (Paperback)
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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