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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<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n

HR Giger: The Oeuvre Before Alien 1961–1976<\/em>, 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 Featuring many unpublished or rarely available early paintings and drawings, and accompanied by an essay by noted art historian Beat Stutzer, this volume juxtaposes Giger’s paintings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.<\/p>\n

HR Giger: The Oeuvre Before Alien<\/em><\/strong> illuminates the mind of a visual genius whose first artistic experiments were decades ahead of their time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new paperback edition of the only book to date to comprehensively document the art that HR Giger created before the Academy Award-winning creatures and environments for Ridley Scott’s science fiction film Alien.
Foreword 7
\nBEAT S T U T Z E R
\nBetween Stool and Bench: Aspects of Giger’s Reception 11
\nBEAT S T U T Z E R
\nI L L U S T R AT I O N S 1 : P ROLOGUE 17
\nLiberation Through Horror: Giger and the Fantastic in Art 25
\nCARLOS ARENAS
\nI L L U S T R AT I O N S 2 : WORKS BY H R G I G E R 37
\nThe Beauty and Surrealism of HR Giger 71
\nF R I T Z B I L L E T E R
\nOn Tachism, Bathtubs, and Garbage Crushers; or, Observations
\nand Remarks on Giger’s Pictorial Strategies 97
\nBEAT S T U T Z E R
\nPortrait of an Immortal Love: The Painting Li II 127
\nKATHLEEN BÜHLER
\nAppendix
\nBiography 151
\nBibliography 155
\nList of Exhibited Works 159
\nCredits 166
\nThe Authors 167<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41010,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40760","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-edited-by-beat-stutzer","8":"publisher-scheidegger-und-spiess-ag-verlag","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHR Giger - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: HR Giger, Pages: 168 Pages, Publish Date: 16th May 2024, Author: Edited by Beat Stutzer, ISBN: 9783039421367. 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