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HR Giger first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes. However, he scored his breakthrough in applied art, and particularly in his high-profile movie work on Ridley Scott's Alien. In 1980, he received an Oscar for "Best Achievement for Visual Effects" for his designs of the film's title creature and its otherworldly environment.

His other celebrated film projects include Poltergeist II, Alien 3 and Species, for which he designed a deadly but beautiful half-extraterrestrial female creature and a fantastic nightmare train. Giger's album covers for Debbie Harry and Emerson, Lake and Palmer were voted as being among the top hundred in music history by music journalists, while furniture designed by Giger graces a bar in Chur, Switzerland.


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A great book for a low price
This is a hefty hardcover book with lots of great material for a very reasonable price. This will be an important part of any Giger collector's library. It features photos not available elsewhere, like Giger-inspired tattoo art and quite recent projects.
very good quality and value production
You can't beat this book on Giger's art as a general showcase of all of his achievements over the years. It's also great value for money at what is really chump change for everything you get.

It's allure is it's broad spectrum covering his phases of art production, but at the same time this also becomes this book's only weakness. Because it covers everything in passing, it also lacks in-depth coverage of the aspects of his art. It's good starting point for anyone that would like to get to know his art in detail, and from this book you move on to more specific books that showcase certain areas.
! ! A great Book from Giger & Taschen ! !
I have been looking for a Giger book for some time and most of them were pretty expensive, even though great looking. Finally I found this great book from Taschen that portrays Giger at its best, painter, sculptor, architect. The book is amazing and the 3D images are spectacular. This is a must for any Giger fan. Cheers and enjoy his work.
If your a fan of Giger or fantastical artwork this book is for you
I own the first print of www.HRGiger.com book & I wasnt sure if I needed buy this updated edition but after scanning thru the entire book I realized the answer was Yes! Lots of cool new stuff has been added & the book is laid out better & even more informative not to mention the amazingly cheap price of this book. I own every book Giger has ever put out including the hard to find stuff from the 70's I've been collecting his stuff since the mid 80's. If you're new to HR Giger there is no book better than this one as a starting point into his creative genius. Buy Now!
A worthy addition to an art library.
I picked up this book at my local Borders. I was there on a whim, browsing the art section, when I saw this gem. After noting the VERY attractive price, I decided on the spot it had to come home with me, as I'm a fan of Giger's work.

As I perused this volume, I fell in love with more than just the art (admittedly, Giger is just not to everyone's taste...if you're not a Giger fan, then this book and this review will do nothing for you, and it's not an attempt to convince you to otherwise). Designed and penned by Giger, it contains prints of finished art and sketches, photographs, selected images from Giger's personal collection of art (that is, art by other people that he collects)--which I think is VERY insightful; it's interesting to see what kind of art an artist appreciates.

As an artist, myself, I revel in the collections of sketches... Sketches can be a chronicle of how a finished work comes to be, and it's interesting to get a glimpse of how other artists--especially masters, such as Giger--work through their ideas and arrive at a final product. Sometimes sketches are just a fleeting idea that gets caught on a page. These are just as fascinating, because they are an insight into how an artist captures a thought and translates it into something visual. Excellent stuff!

Another detail I want to elaborate on are the "3D" versions of a few of Giger's paintings. I hesitate to say "Magic Eye", because those are often horribly muddy, chaotic and nonsensical when viewed normally, and the Giger images in this section are not at all like that. These images are crisply defined and look "normal" at a glance, but nevertheless have that 3D "popping" effect when you view them correctly. Of course, they're accompanied by commentary from Giger. It's an unexpected and delightful treasure to find tucked away in these pages.

Overall, if you're a fan of Giger's work, this is a very worthy addition to your collection. I've poked around, and there are other versions of this title available, some of which are very limited (and expensive) editions. If you haven't the luxury of purchasing one of those, this "no frills" edition is still very solid, and will be a pleasure to thumb through again and again.
HR Giger (Icons)

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Giger hand has fathered some of the most remarkable creatures in recent memory including the creatures in Ridley Scott's film Allen. This pocket-sized book highlights his best work.

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A lot of Giger's greatest artwork.
A very nice collection of lots of varied art from a master. After seeing his work in the Alien series I became very interested in Giger's work and this book did a great job of showing all the different kinds of things he has worked on from classic paintings, to the Giger museum, and even a microphone he designed for Korn.
H R Giger Cufflinks Anyone...?
Alien was a great movie and all...but, come on...H R Giger is essentially nothing more than the Thomas Kincaid of grotesque dark fantasy. How many smoothly contoured robot babes slathered in amniotic fluid can you see before it just starts to seem DULL, DULL, DULL...
Best Giger For the Budget
ok, there are indeed some very odd pictures that explore sex, but oh well. this book is a pure work of art, different and grand.
To the last ignorant review
just because some art explores sex does not mean it is "porn". I love the rampant abundance of ignorance in this country. Giger is an amazing artist, if you have not experienced his work than you are surely missing out on some of the most ORIGINAL artwork of this time.
Fabulous and Fascinating
Although not for the weak at heart, Giger explores the dark reaches of his soul and shares it to the world through his paintings. From there, one can begin to see the alien born in each of us.
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A lot of Giger's greatest artwork.
A very nice collection of lots of varied art from a master. After seeing his work in the Alien series I became very interested in Giger's work and this book did a great job of showing all the different kinds of things he has worked on from classic paintings, to the Giger museum, and even a microphone he designed for Korn.
H R Giger Cufflinks Anyone...?
Alien was a great movie and all...but, come on...H R Giger is essentially nothing more than the Thomas Kincaid of grotesque dark fantasy. How many smoothly contoured robot babes slathered in amniotic fluid can you see before it just starts to seem DULL, DULL, DULL...
Best Giger For the Budget
ok, there are indeed some very odd pictures that explore sex, but oh well. this book is a pure work of art, different and grand.
To the last ignorant review
just because some art explores sex does not mean it is "porn". I love the rampant abundance of ignorance in this country. Giger is an amazing artist, if you have not experienced his work than you are surely missing out on some of the most ORIGINAL artwork of this time.
Fabulous and Fascinating
Although not for the weak at heart, Giger explores the dark reaches of his soul and shares it to the world through his paintings. From there, one can begin to see the alien born in each of us.
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Fantastic introduction to Giger
I have been a casual fan of Giger for some time, but never actually got around to buying any of his work, aside from his calendars. This book serves as a fantastic summary of his life's work and manages to be very informative in its short span.

I wasn't sure if I was a big enough of a fan to buy his larger books, but after this one I'm quite excited about doing so.
Visual intensity
Giger's work has incredible visual impact. He was the designer for the first Alien movie. He created that ambiguity of biota and machine. This book, with less concern for censorship, drives those images far beyond what the theaters can accept.

I read this book with a choked fascination. Giger uses all of his technical mastery in depicting landscapes of torment, eroticism, deformity, and beauty. This world is peopled by multiple beings, fused by birth, by force, or by carnality. His work reminds me of Druillet, where every scene is packed from edge to edge with bizarre detail. Giger goes beyond Druillet with his realistic style, making his monochrome worlds so much more convincing.

Although the Amazon web site lists Timothy Leary as a co-author, he just provides a one-page introduction. It's good, and it's Leary, but Leary fans shouldn't get their hopes up too far.

If you like Giger's work, as I do, this is an incredible collection. (If the imagery is too much for you, I understand.)This book also provides autobiographical notes, but I take those about as seriously as I take Salvador Dali's. It's the pictures that matter.

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Great introduction to the modern surrealist master
This book is an excellent brief introduction to the life and art of H.R. Giger. It features plates of some of his most well-known works, as well as examples of his sketches, pen and inks, and other media. For someone who has taken an interest in Giger, but is not ready to invest in his larger, more complete books, this is a perfect starting point.
Another excellent show of H.R. Giger's imaginary art.
If you just like flipping through art books for their pictures, this is a definte one that will keep you flippin' through the pictures. Another excellent look at how Giger views things.
HR Giger, Posterbook (6 large format art prints, high-gloss finish)

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HR Giger - The Oeuvre Before Alien: Works 1961-1976

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Swiss surrealist artist HR Giger was catapulted to international fame in 1979 for designing the inimitable creatures and otherworldly environments that terrified moviegoers in Ridley Scott’s science fiction film Alien. Yet before these iconic creations made him a Hollywood celebrity and won him an Academy Award for visual effects, Giger was already highly regarded in the international art world for his unique painting style and biomechanical dreamscapes. HR. Giger—The Oeuvre Before “Alien” is the first book to document the artist’s lesser-known, but no less impressive, early work.

This sumptuously illustrated volume traces Giger’s career from his education as an architect and industrial designer in Zürich to the development of his ink drawing and oil painting technique and his eventual breakthrough as one of the foremost artists of the fantastic realism school. These youthful works formed the groundwork for the artist’s later drawings that earned the esteem of the design industry, the adoration of sci-fi aficionados, and a firm place in the twentieth-century pop culture canon.

Featuring many unpublished or rarely available early paintings and drawings and accompanied by an essay by noted art historian Beat Stutzer, this volume also sets Giger’s paintings side by side with predecessors such as Goya, Ensor, and Piranesi. HR Giger—The Oeuvre  Before “Alien” illuminates the mind of a visual genius whose first artistic experiments were decades before their time.

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MCM cosplay: Dressed to impress - The Wharf The WharfMCM cosplay: Dressed to impressBack when it first came to the world's attention in 1979, the slithery HR Giger creature was a master of stalking, squeezing into air ducts and scuttling amongst ceiling pipes before spitting its tongue through someone's head.

Within the Beast - The Times
Within the BeastFrom the strange, vibrating score of Jerry Goldsmith to the tight edits, superb casting and sexual, mechanical designs of HR Giger, it seems to have come together as if by magic, wielding a force that keeps it on edge and in survival mode.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition ... - DVDTimes.co.uk
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition We have an episode dedicated to robot law enforcement; another involves mutated pizzas that look like HR Giger knock-offs; April's DNA mixes with that of a cat, thus giving us - you guessed it; while poor ol' Baxter becomes a permanent Man-Fly.

Game over, man: Why are Aliens games so good? - Destructoid
Game over, man: Why are Aliens games so good?Their memorable look, based on the work of HR Giger, makes them at once scary and undeniably cool, while their established features -- the hive mentality, the second mouth, the acid blood, the complete lack of remorse and reason -- makes them some of

Interview with Jonathan Davis of Korn - Aquarian
Interview with Jonathan Davis of Korn - Aquarian AquarianInterview with Jonathan Davis of KornHis ingenious paraphernalia included kilts, bagpipes and an HR Giger-crafted microphone stand, but above all, his steel plated throat and intensely enveloping psychodrama set him apart from the word “Go.” Coupled with the rest of these California

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Museum H.R. Giger
Home to some of the artist's most important paintings, sculptures, film designs for Alien, Poltergeist II, and Species, as well as his own private art collection.

HR Giger - The Official Website
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H. R. Giger - Wikipedia
Hyperlinked career summary of the Swiss painter best known for his design work on the film Alien.