HR Giger [Icons.; Taschen.]

190 pages : illustrations (many in color) ; 20 cm. ; ISBN: 3822817236 ((pbk.)); 9783822817230 ((pbk.)) LCCN: 2002-501695 ; LC: N7153.G48; Dewey: 709.2 ; OCLC: 50868449 ; English; Text in English, French and German. ; [editor, Sonja Altmappen ; German translation, Clara Drechsler, Urs Thoenen (pref.) ; English translation, Sandra Hathaway ; French translation, Bijan Aalam, Daniel Roche (text by Stanislav Grof) ; "Master artist H.R. Giger guides us through the grimly beautiful world of his unconscious." ; "HR Giger first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes. However, he scored his breakthrough in applied art, and particularly in his high- ; profile movie work on Ridley Scott's Alien. In 1980, he received an Oscar for "Best Achievement for Visual Effects" for his designs of the film's title creature and its otherworldly environment. His other celebrated film projects include Poltergeist II, Alien 3 and Species, for which he designed a deadly but beautiful half-extraterrestrial female creature and a fantastic nightmare train. Giger's album covers for Debbie Harry and Emerson, Lake and Palmer were voted as being among the top hundred in music history by music journalists, while furniture designed by Giger graces a bar in Chur, Switzerland." ; FINE.…