Finally purchased this book I've wanted for some time.
It has great illustrations, albeit dark, various images in each drawing. Quite an undertaking in details. Perfect
addition to other collections of artists books.
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A quick, breezy read.
My first encounter of Giger's thought process, the Taschen book with the purple and black cover, was disappointing. Its images weren't comparable to his Alien designs. Spooky and not much else. This book has fewer artwork but what's included is explained well. The images are his usual bio-mechanoid sex and violence and death horrors. His telling of how he became him is very entertaining and funny. He starts out with seriousness like expressing how loving his parents were as a child, especially his mother. Then devolves in to a deadpan retelling of becoming over sexed before he learned to read. You can hear his voice in your head and the glee he's taking knowing people will be reading this stuff. Much of it satirizes the repressive society he lived in, especially religion and the human suffering it can inspired. He tells of the time a college friend showed him pictures of an execution that haunted him for days and as usual concludes with reluctantly accepting life's ironies. My photos show a series of images titled Passages. Everyone assumes they're photographs. Actually they're individual paintings showcasing his technical brilliance. His explanation of their mechanical origins and connecting sexual references keeps up with his obsessions: birth, death and as much sex as you can find in between.
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My first encounter of Giger's thought process, the Taschen book with the purple and black cover, was disappointing. Its images weren't comparable to his Alien designs. Spooky and not much else. This book has fewer artwork but what's included is explained well. The images are his usual bio-mechanoid sex and violence and death horrors. His telling of how he became him is very entertaining and funny. He starts out with seriousness like expressing how loving his parents were as a child, especially his mother. Then devolves in to a deadpan retelling of becoming over sexed before he learned to read. You can hear his voice in your head and the glee he's taking knowing people will be reading this stuff. Much of it satirizes the repressive society he lived in, especially religion and the human suffering it can inspired. He tells of the time a college friend showed him pictures of an execution that haunted him for days and as usual concludes with reluctantly accepting life's ironies. My photos show a series of images titled Passages. Everyone assumes they're photographs. Actually they're individual paintings showcasing his technical brilliance. His explanation of their mechanical origins and connecting sexual references keeps up with his obsessions: birth, death and as much sex as you can find in between.
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Reviewed in India on November 27, 2020
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Reviewed in India on November 27, 2020
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