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HR Giger (Icons)

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this is a great way to get introduced to Giger's work. I would recomend The Necronomicon to follow up this book and watch any of the Alien films to see how Giger's work has influenced Hollywood. Its also an extremely good price.

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.

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.

I was overwhelmed with how wonderful this small little book was. Even though it really has taken up a lot of pages because all of Giger's writing in it is in 4 different languages in the same book so buyers beware, a lot of the pages are not in english. But the great note is it really has an enormous number of a lot of the art, projects, film, and museum photos in it. A lot of them in which cannot be found in any of his other books. For the price though it is a quantum steal. If you are a huge Giger fan like me it is a must have.

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.

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...

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.

After looking at the works featured in this book, I come to the conclusion that Giger is too obssesed with sex in his designs, to the stage of including porn (not art) in his work. Included in this book are sketches and drawings showing his designs are centered around sexual, skeletal, "slender", "bloat", "mechanical screws" themes. At times, I feel the artist is lacking in creativity (Yeah, I know he is a "someone" in the art world).

Even before the section, Gigerotica, there are already pictures of female figures fitted with rubber phallus (pg 48, 49), engaging in sexual union. Other pages which might be "offensive" show group sex, oral sex, self-penetration, etc... Can't help but wonder, "Isn't this more of porn that art". I think it goes beyond erotic art.

If everything in this book can be called art, then I suppose you can include any photo of people having sex called art as well.