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Title: H.R. Giger's Necronomicon by H.R. Giger ISBN: 0-9623447-2-9 Publisher: Morpheus International Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A guidebook to hell
Comment: H.R. Giger's work has, in my opinion, the distinction of being the most disturbing art embraced by the public since that of Hieronymous Bosch. Here is a great introduction (if you don't mind the price tag) to the work of such an artist.
This book is not for the young or the easily disturbed. The world of Giger is quite intentionally the world of nightmares, with Freudian symbolism, decay, and perverse sexuality abounding. But there is also a beauty behind it all, in the metallic shine of his futuristic nymphs or the strange landscapes of endless babies' faces which make us realize the strangeness inherent in the everyday. Instead of using art to try and transcend reality, Giger pulls us down into the darkest parts of what we see around us, and refuses to let us go. In this way he shows us that perhaps that darkness is not so terrifying as it may seem, and he accustoms us to facing that in ourselves. Not only is such confrontation healthy, it may very well be essential, and Giger is a skilled tour guide when it comes to areas of the mind and psyche that not many artists have dared to explore.
The second Necronomicon volume is a worthy companion to this one, but if you must have only one Giger book this is the one I recommend. Use this book to take yourself into hell...and then realize that you can come back out again.
Rating: 5
Summary: His most brilliant work condensed into this outstanding work
Comment: After having seen some of Giger's work in Alien and some other more well know work I decided to buy Biomechanics. It was very good, but the Necronomicon is THE pilot book for all the rest of his works. It contains his most outstanding work as far as weird and the macabe go. A tour de force of his strange mind. A wonderous collection of strange and terrible images masterfully done. It is quite disturbing to look at but wonderfully fascinating at the same time. I guarantee if you buy this book you will not be able to put in down until you have read all the notes and seen every last picture, it's that good.
Rating: 3
Summary: mediocrity and genius
Comment: Mr. Giger did the cover for Emerson, Lake and Palmer's great albumn "Brain Salad Surgery" and that central image of a kind of "Lilith of the future" is both an emblem and a counter-emblem of his whole work. One also thinks of the great creature from the movie "Alien" blasphemously beautiful in all of its dehumanized phallic grandeur. "H.R. Giger's Necronomicon" could be regarded as his Sistine Chapel, the focus of all his work, its origin and its summation. For many years now I have felt that Mr. Giger's work is full of both mediocrity and genius. In some odd way it is an exact fusion of the two. (...)I look at all of those devils and distances of depravity and I am filled with a kind of calm. His work comforts me - actually - in the way that the work of Norman Rockwell comforts and assures so many others. Why not? Edgar Allan Poe was also an absurd blend of mediocrity and genius. As a technician Mr. Giger is merely competent. But the skulls the heads and the industry add up to a world mildly beautiful, mildly ugly but stimulating as a kind of Picasso's less significant rebellious cousin. Definitely worth the look.
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Title: H.R. Giger's Necronomicon II by H. R. Giger, Clara H. Frame ISBN: 0962344761 Publisher: Morpheus Intl Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $69.50 |
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Title: Hr Giger's Retrospective: 1964-1984 by H. R. Giger, Kathi Christen, Adrienne Theimer, Ernst Fuchs ISBN: 1883398290 Publisher: Morpheus Intl Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: H. R. Giger 2004 Calendar by H. R. Giger ISBN: 1883398576 Publisher: Morpheus Intl Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Giger's Alien by H. R. Giger ISBN: 1883398088 Publisher: Morpheus Intl Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Biomannerism by H.R. Giger, Treville ISBN: 4845711214 Publisher: Libro Port Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $47.00 |
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