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Swiss surrealist artist HR Giger (1940-2014) achieved international fame in 1979 for designing the fantastic creatures and eerie environments that terrified moviegoers in Ridley Scott's science fiction film Alien. Yet before these iconic creations made him a celebrity and won him an Oscar for visual effects, Giger was already highly regarded in the international art world for his unique freehand painting style and biomechanical dreamscapes.
HR Giger: The Oeuvre Before Alien 1961-1976, first published in 2007 and now becoming available again in a new edition, is the only book to date to document the artist's lesser known, but no less impressive, early work. This lavishly illustrated volume traces Giger's career from his education as an architect and industrial designer at the Zurich College of Art 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. Featuring many unpublished or rarely available early paintings and drawings, and accompanied by an essay by noted art historian Beat Stutzer, this volume juxtaposes Giger's paintings with works by his predecessors, including Ensor, Fuseli, Goya, and Piranesi.
HR Giger: The Oeuvre Before Alien illuminates the mind of a visual genius whose first artistic experiments were decades ahead of their time.
Contents
Foreword 7
BEAT S T U T Z E R
Between Stool and Bench: Aspects of Giger's Reception 11
BEAT S T U T Z E R
I L L U S T R AT I O N S 1 : P ROLOGUE 17
Liberation Through Horror: Giger and the Fantastic in Art 25
CARLOS ARENAS
I L L U S T R AT I O N S 2 : WORKS BY H R G I G E R 37
The Beauty and Surrealism of HR Giger 71
F R I T Z B I L L E T E R
On Tachism, Bathtubs, and Garbage Crushers; or, Observations
and Remarks on Giger's Pictorial Strategies 97
BEAT S T U T Z E R
Portrait of an Immortal Love: The Painting Li II 127
KATHLEEN BÜHLER
Appendix
Biography 151
Bibliography 155
List of Exhibited Works 159
Credits 166
The Authors 167
