The 2009 H. R. Giger Calender
by H. R. Giger
from Morpheus International
WWW HR Giger Com (25 Spring)
from Taschen
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. This book was designed by the artist himself, and features detailed commentaries in which Giger describes his work from the early 1960s to the late 1990s; the authentic voice of the master.
Giger (Basic Art)
from Taschen
Giger's multi-faceted career - From surrealistic dream landscapes, to album cover designs, and sculpture
For the last three decades H.R. Giger has reigned as one of the leading exponents of fantastic art. Born in Chur, Switzerland, in 1940, he studied interior and industrial design for eight years at the School of Commercial Art in Zurich (1962-1970), but was soon gaining attention as an independent artist, with endeavors ranging from surrealistic dream landscapes created with a spray gun and stencils, to album cover designs for famous pop stars, and sculpture.
In addition, Giger's multi-faceted career includes designing two bars, located in Tokyo and Chur, as well as work on various film projects - his creation of the set design and title figure for Ridley Scott's film Alien won him not only international fame but also an Oscar for Best Achievement for Visual Effects (1980).
"The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking." H.R. Giger
H. R. Giger's Biomechanics
by H. R. Giger
from Morpheus International
HR GIGER ARh+
by H. R. Giger
from Benedikt Taschen Verlag
HR Giger (Icons)
by H R Giger
from Taschen
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.
H. R. Giger's Retrospective: 1964-1984
by H. R. Giger
from Morpheus International
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.
HR Giger - The Oeuvre Before Alien: Works 1961-1976
from Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess
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.
H.R. Giger (Portfolio (Taschen))
by H R Giger
from Taschen
H. R. Giger is recognized as one of the world's foremost artists of Fantastic Realism. This portfolio includes 14 reproductions.
H. R. Giger 2007 Calendar: Of the Fantastique
by H. R. Giger
from Morpheus International
H. R. GigerÂ’s unique biomechanical art, featuring everything from sleek, sensual robot women to frighteningly complex creatures blending skin and steel, has won both critical and commercial accolades. Designed with an elegant black background and matching color grid for each of these masterfully surreal images, this yearÂ’s much-awaited calendar contains fascinating facts, dates, and quotes from the worlds of fantastic art, literature, and film. Giger's best paintings and sculptures are showcased here, including work never before published.
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