书籍介绍
H.R. Giger’s multi-faceted career: From surrealistic dream landscapes to album cover designs and sculptures
For decades H.R. Giger (1940—2014) reigned as one of the leading exponents of fantastic art. After he studied interior and industrial design for eight years at the School of Commercial Art in Zurich, Switzerland, from 1962 till 1970, he 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 sculptures. 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 Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects (1980).
About the series:
Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:
a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
AI导读
核心看点
- 收录吉格《异形》设计等经典暗黑艺术画作
- 穿插艺术家自述片段，揭示创作心路历程
- 蒂莫西·利瑞激情前言，极具迷幻色彩
适合谁读
- 科幻影迷及《异形》系列忠实粉丝
- 暗黑艺术、超现实主义及机械美学爱好者
- 塔森出版社画册收藏者及设计从业者
读前提醒
- 本书含大量生殖与暗黑意象，心理承受力弱者慎入
- 自述内容止于1990年，不含晚期作品与观点
- 部分读者反馈印刷清晰度一般，建议降低预期
读者共识
- 吉格创造力惊人，但部分自述观点引发争议
- 塔森系列中性价比极高，适合入门收藏
- 视觉冲击力强，是了解吉格艺术的最佳捷径
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "City dwellers, alert! It is time to evolve! We shall no longer have to clin like barnacles and crawl like caterpillars in the darkness of our own metropolitan tissues. Giger's art flashes the illumination of biological intelligence down into the dark cave of our cities. The genetic signal is clear. "
- "Connections in the art world? Yes- and how. Without them, artists of equal rank would be given equal treatment, and that would be unfair. Someone who is beautiful, clever, intelligent and sexy by nature should be favore - and that's precisely what happens. In almost every profession, friendships whi"
- "I think this stake-bound life, for whom redemption meant as soon a death as possible, plainly showed me the senselessness of existence. An existence better never begun. Many of my works reflect this state of hopeless enslavement which leaves no room for religious beliefs."
- "My planet was ruled by evil, a place where black magic was practiced, aggressions were let loose, and intemperance and perversion were the order of the day. Just the place for me, in fact. Only sex couldn't be shown, and I had to work as if the film was being made for children. Jodorowsky was fed up"
- "I hate to be superstitious; I see it as a great weakness which takes away a person's freedom and can drive him to madness. Superstition can encourage chance, so that you yourself can unconsciously held things happen. I genuinely try not to be superstitious, and I also avoid everything to do with sec"
作者简介
H.R. Giger (1940–2014) was a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer. He first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes, and rose to fame through high profile movie work, most notably as part of the team behind the visual effects in Alien, which won an Academy Award. H.R Giger was named in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2013.
用户评论
跨年的晚上看完了这本书，插入的自传段落都很短但挺有趣。最好笑的是荷兰海关怀疑吉格的画是照片，他吐槽说你们以为我是在地狱里拍到这些玩意儿的吗？
即便异形已经被创作出这么多年，这么多作品，但人们依旧需要它，渴望它。
Giger这一本在塔森艺术基础系列里比较不同，前言是Timothy Leary写的，主体是Giger零散的自叙片段，讲述成长和作品，因此少了一种critical批判性的视角。而且Giger的作品更偏向设计，当然所谓“当代艺术”把屎都归为艺术那就另当别论了。Bruegel和Bosch的怪兽，铁道模型，seaworm, 性，器官，头骨，喷笔，加起来。父亲的authoritarian, 会形成了扭曲的控制欲。残酷的图片紧闭的窗帘幽深的楼梯，是恐惧的来源。有些人对死亡恐惧的应对方式就是，一直在死。这样的世界应该看，但是并不酷。
买来珍藏
😭😭😭😭😭
买了去年Taschen的那本画册以后犹豫要不要买这本，因为貌似这是Taschen出版的一系列艺术家的作品集之一，而且又只有96页，不过看到里面貌似有些没见过的画且并不贵就买了。没想到这本书跟之前看过的两本他的画册又不一样，文章全部来自于Giger的自述，虽然短但是基本上涵盖了他的艺术创作的各方面，不过只到1990年，因为这本书其实是1991年出版的，再版只是把后面的年表续写到了他去世的2014年。至此看过的三本关于Giger的英文画册都有不同的侧重，都非常值得看看。
说实话，看了很多关于作品和采访，giger 的创造力很棒，但这本书里自叙的观点让我倒胃口，果然艺术家只能看它的作品
7.5 / 可惜图片太糊了，有点失望
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