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The only book to date to study HR Giger's art before his legendary work in Ridley Scott's Alien. Swiss surrealist artist HR Giger (1940-2014) was catapulted to international fame in 1979 for designing the inimitable creatures and otherworldly environments that terrified moviegoers who watched Ridley Scott's Alien. Yet before these iconic creations made him a Hollywood celebrity, Giger was already highly regarded in the international art world for his unique painting style and biomechanical dreamscapes. HR Giger:The Oeuvre Before Alien is the only book to date to document the artist's lesser-known work. The new edition of this richly illustrated book traces Giger's career from his education to the development of his drawing and painting technique to his eventual breakthrough as one of the foremost artists of the fantastic realism school. Featuring unpublished or rarely available early paintings and drawings accompanied by an essay by art historian Beat Stutzer, this volume also sets Giger's paintings side by side with predecessors such as Goya, Ensor, and Piranesi. HR Giger: The Oeuvre Before Alien illuminates the mind of a visual genius whose first artistic experiments were decades before their time.

Die Monografie über den Schweizer Künstler Franz Bucher beleuchtet seine jüngsten Werke, die er als "Felder" bezeichnet. Sie zeigt, wie seine monochromen Farbflächen und dynamischen Pinselstriche eine eigene Struktur schaffen und reflektiert seine künstlerischen Intentionen über die Jahre hinweg, unabhängig von spezifischen Motiven.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), Mitbegründer der Künstlervereinigung Die Brücke, liess sich 1918 in Davos nieder, wo er in der ersten Hälfte der 1920er-Jahre von mehreren jüngeren Künstlern besucht wurde. Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem bedeutenden Expressionisten in den Bergen wurde zum prägenden Einfluss für den deutschen Maler Philipp Bauknecht (1884–1933), den holländischen Maler und Bildhauer Jan Wiegers (1893–1959) und die Künstler der Basler Gruppe Rot-Blau, Paul Camenisch (1893–1970), Albert Müller (1897–1926) und Hermann Scherer (1893–1927). Dieses mit zahlreichen Abbildungen illustrierte Buch thematisiert zum ersten Mal den Dialog zwischen Kirchner und seinen Künstlerfreunden. Die Gliederung der Werke in Berglandschaften, Porträts, Skulpturen und Akte veranschaulicht die Auseinandersetzung mit Kirchners Motiven, Formensprache und Farbigkeit. Deutlich werden jedoch auch die je eigene Schaffenskraft und die autonome Werkentwicklung dieser Künstler. Das Buch erschien zu Ausstellungen im Kunstmuseum Bern, im Groninger Museum und im Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur.

"The artist Giovanni Segantini was a leading member of the European avant-garde of his day. He was hailed as an 'innovator', a 'prophet' and a 'revolutionary': in an obituary one critic called him a "Secession in his own right". His work was to be seen in public and private collections alike, and had a major effect on art in Europe at the time. Even the Futurists cited him as a role-model." "This is the first ever Segantini monograph in English. It offers the public an opportunity to see important paintings and drawings by this artist, including his famous triptych La vita - La natura - La morte (Live - Nature - Death). With in-depth essays on the artist's oeuvre - from his early genre paintings, influenced by Realism, right up to his symbolic depictions of Nature in a Divisionist style - this publication is an up-to-date, comprehensive monograph on Giovanni Segantini."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved