"H.R. GIGER'S NECRONOMICON: A startling milestone on the darkly lit road once traveled by the likes of Bosch, Brueghel, Lovecraft, Poe and Kafka. Giger's remarkable book of the dead gives us some of the most powerful images ever an artist drew from the well of the imagination.
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A guidebook to hell,
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H.R. Giger's work has, in my opinion, the distinction of being the most disturbing art embraced by the public since that of Hieronymous Bosch. Here is a great introduction (if you don't mind the price tag) to the work of such an artist.This book is not for the young or the easily disturbed. The world of Giger is quite intentionally the world of nightmares, with Freudian symbolism, decay, and perverse sexuality abounding. But there is also a beauty behind it all, in the metallic shine of his futuristic nymphs or the strange landscapes of endless babies' faces which make us realize the strangeness inherent in the everyday. Instead of using art to try and transcend reality, Giger pulls us down into the darkest parts of what we see around us, and refuses to let us go. In this way he shows us that perhaps that darkness is not so terrifying as it may seem, and he accustoms us to facing that in ourselves. Not only is such confrontation healthy, it may very well be essential, and Giger is a skilled tour guide when it comes to areas of the mind and psyche that not many artists have dared to explore. The second Necronomicon volume is a worthy companion to this one, but if you must have only one Giger book this is the one I recommend. Use this book to take yourself into hell...and then realize that you can come back out again.
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His most brilliant work condensed into this outstanding work,
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After having seen some of Giger's work in Alien and some other more well know work I decided to buy Biomechanics. It was very good, but the Necronomicon is THE pilot book for all the rest of his works. It contains his most outstanding work as far as weird and the macabe go. A tour de force of his strange mind. A wonderous collection of strange and terrible images masterfully done. It is quite disturbing to look at but wonderfully fascinating at the same time. I guarantee if you buy this book you will not be able to put in down until you have read all the notes and seen every last picture, it's that good.
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Crass, penetrating, bedrock samples of Giger's macabre work.,
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Here is an excellent foundation of H.R. Giger's work for those sci-fi die-hards who appreciate intense subjects in both text and art. This books shows a wide range of H.R.'s various styles, each one drilling through contemporary notions of form, etiquette, and courtesy. It is a no-nonsense expose' of the nightmare-ish alter-dimensional world of Giger's dreams which taps into the source of human fear. I most strongly recommend this and all the other art books by H.R Giger to all folks who can think for themselves, who can put reality, physics, religion, politics, morals, mathmatics, et. al. in their own separate boxes for a moment, and who seek a startling sidebar from the mundane world. EWH
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The Shaft pictures, which I began to produce around 1966, have their origin in my dreams I was sleeping badly at the time and was pursued by a series of nightmares. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Beverly Hills, Galerie Morpheus International, Galerie Art Magazin, Giger's Necronomicon, Los Angeles, Debbie Harry, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Galerie Baviera, Galerie Bijan Aalam, Giger's Alien, Walo Steiner, Century Fox, Festival du Film Fantastique Bruxelles, Galerie Humus, Galerie Stummer, Hansen Galleries, Leslie Barany, Lou Stathis, Passage Temple, The Mystery of San Gottardo, The Spell, Watch Abart, Zurich Schauspielhaus, Edition Baal New!
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The Shaft pictures, which I began to produce around 1966, have their origin in my dreams I was sleeping badly at the time and was pursued by a series of nightmares. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Beverly Hills, Galerie Morpheus International, Galerie Art Magazin, Giger's Necronomicon, Los Angeles, Debbie Harry, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Galerie Baviera, Galerie Bijan Aalam, Giger's Alien, Walo Steiner, Century Fox, Festival du Film Fantastique Bruxelles, Galerie Humus, Galerie Stummer, Hansen Galleries, Leslie Barany, Lou Stathis, Passage Temple, The Mystery of San Gottardo, The Spell, Watch Abart, Zurich Schauspielhaus, Edition Baal New!
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- Species Design by H. R. Giger on page 69, and page 70
- Early Morning (Playscripts) by Edward Bond on page 43, and page 45
- Images of Horror and Fantasy by Gert Schiff on page 70
- All Aboard: Year 1, Term 2 Fiction - Traditional Tales by M. Hughes on page 70
- Occult Experience by Nevill Drury on page 70
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- H. R. Giger's Retrospective: 1964-1984 by H. R. Giger in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- H. R. Giger's Film Design by H. R. Giger in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Species Design by H. R. Giger in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- H. R. Giger's Biomechanics by H. R. Giger on page 52, and Back Matter
- Stars by Kruger by Sebastian Kruger in Back Matter
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