HR Giger: The Ultimate Combatant

Jim MacKinnon: I like his style and this book gives both info as well as a visual treat.

Canada on Nov 03, 2023

Tyree: Great art

United States on Oct 27, 2023

Gary Mercado: Fast sending and Great book, thank you.

United States on Oct 21, 2023

Shubham Agrawal: A decent hardcover art + biography book for your coffee table - unfortunately the quality of the prints is not very high, making it really difficult to admire the details of some of the works. Probably explains the low price.

United States on Jun 25, 2023

Ct Dt Bpt zzzCt Dt Bpt zzz: 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...

United States on Jun 04, 2023

Elbereth Gilthoniel: Los maravillosos dibujos de Giger. Faltaria un poco mas de texto

Spain on May 19, 2023

Noemí: Todo bien pero vino un poco tocado

Spain on May 03, 2023

MS caregiver: I really like this book. And the price well no brainer

Canada on Mar 30, 2023

David: I ordered the book and it is amazing, despite getting a shipping snafu and the seller kept in touch through the whole process.

United States on Dec 23, 2022

NumberSix: Another great introductory book in Taschen's "Basic Art" series. But, note that this book is basically a reprint of the book titled "ARh+" that was published in the early 90s, basically only updated to include a few items in the chronology after the publication of the first book up to the date of Giger's unfortunate demise in 2014.

As an overview of the great man's work, it is more or less perfect. The text is mainly by Giger himself, and is autobiographical with some insights into his influences and so on. The illustrations are fantastic, of course, and cover Giger's whole career including album covers (for e.g. Debbie Harry and Emerson Lake and Palmer, as well as the famously controversial Dead Kennedys cover), painting (such as the influential "biomechanical" series), sculpture and film work including the legendary designs for the Alien films.

Of course, Giger's work is, well, not for the faint hearted, so anyone who's a bit squeamish or easily offended should probably cross this off their wishlist, but you'd be missing out on the work of one of the true visionary artists of the 20th century.

United Kingdom on Jul 10, 2022