H. R. Giger primer.
c...@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
late in 1992. It includes approximately 200 lines of new information.
Hope you enjoy it. Please send comments/corrections/material to the
address below.
Ice(_Feb._3_1993_)
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Thanks to all the people mentioned in the acknowledgements who responded
to my request for information on H.R. Giger. I was really overwhelmed.
It's when people are willing to help out like this which makes me really
glad I took the time to learn Unix.
I have compiled the information into what I deem to be relevent sections.
i) About H.R. Giger.
ii) The various works themselves and related info.
iii) Miscellaneous information.
iv) Acknowledgements.
It is my hope that this information proves useful to any others who may
have an interest in science-fiction surrealist art such as that of Giger's.
Should this compilation stimulate some inquiries into the role art may
play in being an emissary of science, then I will be pleased.
Lastly, if any others may suggest related artists who do work along
the lines of Giger's I would appreciate hearing about it. But in the
coming weeks I look forward to exploring what has been pointed out
to me by all those who responded.
Sincerely,
Ice() i...@skynet.uucp or c...@watserv1.waterloo.edu
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About H.R. Giger...
Giger, H. R. (Hansruedi), 1940-
To your knowledge of Giger, you can add the fact that his name should be
pronounced GEE-GER, not like Geiger.
It's a he. If you have cable, there's a few segments with Giger in
the short film about the making of Alien^3 that's been showing on one
of the movie channels. Very creepy guy with an equally creepy house.
...the screaming face that can be seen in many of his works is supposed to
be his girlfriend, who committed suicide years ago.
He only did Alien work, as the contract he signed was a bit suspect,
when he came to do Aliens the film company told him that since they
have the copyright to his original work and ideas they no longer
needed him, as far as I know he got no money from either Aliens or
Alien III.
I recently bought a book called Arh+ which has many of his paintings
and also small sections where he talks about different areas of his life
eg. parents, childhood, etc). There are a few portfolios of
his work which are listed in this particular book...
*A biography of H.R. Giger (thanks to mea...@blade.wcc.govt.nz)
Biographical Profile:
1964 H.R. G. attends the School of Applied Arts In Zurich. Ink
drawings are published in the Chur canton schoo magazine. Also
works in distemper and polyster.
1965 Publication of ink drawings in underground papers. Final
exam work Station Passage is a joint project.
1969 H. H. Kunz prints H.R.G.'s first posters and distributes
them world-wide. H.R.G. designs costumes for Peter Stein's
production of Edward Bond's >>Early Morning<< in the Zurich
Schausspeilhaus.
1971 Murer and H.R.G. decide to make a documentary film called
Passagen (Passengers). The first catalogue of H.R. G's works,
entitled A RH, is published.
1973 Fredrich Kuhn dies; H.R.G. paints Hommage a' Freidrich.
H.R. G is comissioned to design a record cover for the rock
group Emmerson, Lake and Palmer.
1974 The Bundner Kunst mueseum exhibits Day Dream, the joint
work of H.R.G., Claude Sandoz and Walter Wegmuller and publishes
a catalogue of H.R.G.'s work under the title Passagen.
H.R.G. is invited to be guest of honour at Mandrid and Brussels
festivals of fantastic films.
1984 Retrospective in the Pffaffikon Kulturzentrum.
1985 Commissioned by MGM to create various horror scenes for the
film Poltergist II under director Brian Gibson. Commissioned by
Volvo to produce an illustration for Issac Asimov's short story
>> The Route To Hyperspace <<.
1986 Commissioned by the Swiss television channel DRS to design
a TV prize, the >>Prix Tell<<. In Japan Sony launches the first
laser discs with cover motifs by H.R.G. Alexander Bohr films a
45-minute portrait on >>The Fantastic universe of HR Giger<< for
the German Television channel ZDF. Poltergist II is released world-
wide, but H.R.G. is very unhappy with the visual transformation of
his ideas.
1987 Large exhibition in the galleries of the Seibu Museum of Art
in Tokoyo. In addition to the themes of Giger's Alien and Poltergiest
II, the show includes the orginal Alien monster, a Harkonnen chair
and other original pictures. A Japenese Giger fan club is founded.
H.R.G. is commissioned to create the monster Goho Dohji for a film
by the Japanese director Akio Jitsusoji.
1988 The magazine Cinefantasique publishes a 16 page lead story on
Giger. Books by A. Crowley, Lovecraft and Timothy Leary are published
in slip cases with Giger motifs. A Giger bar is built in Tokoyo and
inaugurated by Ueli Steinle. Exhibition at Jes Petersen's gallery
in Berlin. Takes part in the Alchemy Symposium in St. Gallen.
Pulication of his book Biomechanics in Zurich, Paris and New York.
>>Drawings Expanded<< exhibition at Rolf Mullen's Art Magazin Gallery.
1989 - Produces illustrations for Pier Geering's >>Robofok<< story.
Creates a poster for the 10th international Hells Angels meeting in
Agasul, Switzerland. Negotiations on Alien III and talks with Ridley
Scott on a new film. Involvement in Engel, Teufel und Damonen (Angels,
Devils and Demons), a five-hour film on fantastic art by Heniz Dieckmann.
Exhibition in Cha Yverdon as part of the PR for the first European SF
museum >>Les amis d'ailleurs<<. Collaboration on a cultural magazine
with Bettina and Hans Klink in Zurich.
1990 - Various exhibitions in honour of H.R.G's fifieth birthday are
held in the Kunsthaus in Chur. Preparation for the exhibition >>Alien
dans ses Meubles<< in Chateau Gruyeres. Designs a bag for the Migros
Group, which is printed one million times. Designs furniture for a
cafe in Chur and a bar in New York City. Design work for ART 1991 in
the Gallery Hilt in Basle, as well as for the film Alien III.
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The various works themselves and related info...
I saw a periodical concerned with Film making and Special
effects and I think special effects was in the title. There was
one issue about a year ago devoted to Giger.
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H.R. Giger's Necronomicon
Giger, H. R. (Hansruedi), 1940-
H. R. Giger's Necronomicon. Basel : Sphinx-Verlag, 1977.
AUTHOR: Giger
TITLE: H. R. Giger's Necronomicon
IMPRINT: Publishers Group West, 1991. (Hardback. ISBN:0-9623447-2-9)
PRICE: $69.50
SUBJECT: Art History
It was published sometime in the mid seventies was pivotal in getting the
job for Alien.
It's a fairly large collection of his work but is also fairly
expensive. $70-$80.
If you find the European, BUY IT! It's very hard to find. Morpheus just
reprinted it, so that might not be hard to find. Has the art that O'Bannon
got the Alien's appearance from.
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H.R. Giger's Necronomicon 2
Giger, H. R. (Hansruedi), 1940-
H.R. Giger's Necronomicon 2. New York : Catalan Communications, 1986.
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Giger's Alien
"Giger's Alien" which is a chronicle of the work he did for the movie Alien.
Propably the easiest to find. Morpeus Int'l had lots last time I asked.
Has all the necessary info for any serious Alien/Giger buff. Text is
basically Giger's notes while doing the Alien project.
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H.R. Giger's Biomechanics (European & reprint)
Giger, H. R. (Hansruedi), 1940-
H.R. Giger's Biomechanics / color illustrations, Roland Gretler ; black
and white illustrations, Louis Stalder ; English translation by Clara
Horicht Frame ; Harlan Ellison, introduction. 1st American ed. Beverly
Hills, CA : Morpheus International, 1990.
AUTHOR: Giger
TITLE: H R Giger's Biomechanics
IMPRINT: Publishers Group West, 1990. (Hardback. ISBN:0-9623447-1-0)
PRICE: $69.50
SUBJECT: Art History
A little easier to find than most. More alien-ish type stuff.
...and it is well worth the money, it contains alot of work from
Poltergeist II that he did.
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New York City
Giger, H. R. (Hansruedi), 1940-
H.R. Giger, N.Y. City. Basel : Sphinx Verlag, c1981.
Smaller size and page count. Mostly stuff inspired by his trip to the
big apple. Was available from Morpheus once.
I have a book of Giger's stuff at home called _New York_. It is published
by a company called Ugly Publishing, also in NY if memory serves.
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Art by Giger
Cheap paperback collection of some of his work from
both Biomechanics and Necronomicon... (as little as 4 pounds)
{The above is from memory and is probably wrong or slightly
incorrrect}
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In Giger's own words... reflections and commentary on selected works.
(courtesy mea...@blade.wcc.govt.nz)
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The Posterbook has 6 prints (31 x 44 cm) and contains:
Safari 1973-1976
This is a hideous picture show two crippled hunters. I have
first used this theme in 1963 and had called it Atomic Children at a
time when Cherbonyl did'nt even exist
Manifesto of Atomic Children 1963 by H.R.G.
We are grateful to our
creators
who at the time of the Big
Bang
instinctively hurled them-
selves to the ground
and like good citizens
counted to 15
in accordance with Switzer-
lands nucluer reglations.
For otherwise we would'nt be
here at all.
We atomic children don't
want to moralize
or reproach anyone;
we simply want you to get
used to us
and grow to love us.
But for you we can offer no
guarantees
because as soon as we gain
the upper hand
you will be classed as abor-
mal and as a result
may well have to suffer
--
Cataract, 1977
Red> this is a bit long to transcribe so the rest I summarise the text:
The picture depletes a waterfall (Segnes) and shows a dragons image.
The water is rushing down over a clift-face of skulls only to make it
apparently dry out and disappear at the bottom. He suggests standing
under it and feeling a a strong magnetic field.
--
The Spell II 1974
"Shows the middle section of a four-part temple. Depicts old black magic
elements: cross, sudadrium, witches etc. The scene takes place over the
chasm of a thin scraggy catherdral. The particular detail potrays a black
mass." Prominent in this print are baby faces with tubular body shapes, a
cross with a goats head, a supreme being (?) standing over a sacrifical
person, whose head is stuck in a vice.
--
Landscape XVIII 1973
"Landscapes formed from babie's heads have always given me a particular
thrill. Babies are so beautifully innocent and yet when I see them en
masse (a canvas thank God as its limits) they become threatening and
seem to me to represent the beginnng of all evil.
Picture shows a mass of babies faces showing signs of interesting skin
diseases.
--
Li I
Li and I lived together as lovers right up to her death in 1975. Because
she was so beautiful I painted this picture as a homage to her. I'd always
had a passion for lovely women. Her femininity also made her an extremely
seductive woman, which possibly explains why the idea of intergrating the
snake in her forehead occurred to me. As an actress she adored anything
unusual and loathed every form of mediocrity. It bored her to tears.
When she finally left the theatre she opened her own gallery in 1974.
The exhibition she held there enjoyed full success and were also taken
abroad. Up to her death in 1975 her life was short but very intensive in
every way and her uniqueness slayed imprinted in the mind of everyone
who ever met her.
Li - has tentacles (hair) coming from her face, with little skulls
embossed on them, alien appearance.
--
Hommage a Bocklin 1977
The Island Of Death (Die Torteninsel -Hilter duly sercured for himself
one of four versions of it) inspired this picture, a stone gate with tall
cypress trees in the background which blend into a greenblack mass.
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Miscellaneous info...
I saw some of his work in a comic book store. People who collect comic
books are often into sci-fi as well. There is a book on Aliens that features
his work. You may be able to find it at one of these specialty shops.
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Good luck. You won't find any Giger in a Library. Everything
is way too rare and expensive. Try art/collectors book stores, REAL good comic
shops, occult stores, or anything or anyone that might deal in surrealism or
collector's work.
One place is Morpheus International in Beverly Hills, Ca. (as opposed to
Beverly Hills, Nebraska) They carry only reprints, and are not worth as
much, but at least you get to see the art. If you are lucky you might find
some of the original European books. These are known by the soft-bound
covers (that the bindings fall appart on), and are REALLY expensive. I don't
have Morpheus' address or phone number with me, you could try calling
information.
Oh, BTW. Morpheus Int'l also sells posters of his work. Very nice for
framing, but get snatched up fast. If you get on their mailing list, they
will always tell you in advance of the new stuff they are releasing. Often, you
get offers of real collector items like limited edition signed lithograths, etc.
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Keep your eyes *peeled* for _H.R.Giger's_New_York, and also his slim volume
_Alien_(which was recently reprinted for around $35)
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I don't know where you have been looking for his books, but I have seen them
at 1) Science Fiction bookstore 2) Comic Shops 3) Role Playing Game stores.
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There's also a pretty expensive, large format book that came out in
the last year or so with a lot of Giger's art and biography
information.
Great pictures in this book, though not for every taste. It's
marketed as a collector's edition. Sort of a coffee-table book for
the cutting edge weird. . . .
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He only did Alien work, as the contract he signed was a bit suspect,
when he came to do Aliens the film company told him that since they
have the copyright to his original work and ideas they no longer
needed him, as far as I know he got no money from either Aliens or
Aliens III.
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H.R. Giger is in fact male. I recently bought a book called Arh+ which has
many of his paintings and also small sections where he talks about different
areas of his lifeeg. parents, childhood, etc). There are a few portfolios of
his work hich are listed in this particular book...
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I saw a periodical concerned with Film making and Special
effects and I think special effects was in the title. There was
one issue about a year ago devoted to Giger.
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One sure source is writing to : HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE ( adult comix )
they offered at least two books with facts and reproductions of Gigers work
not too long ago.
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Acknowledgements...
From: sta...@vax.FTP.COM (Kurt Staven)
From: mccr...@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
From: erik_j...@askinc.ask.com (Erik Johnson)
From: tb...@reed.edu (Toby Boyd)
From: rus...@mozart.convex.com (Russ Urquhart)
From: Bill Turkel <tur...@unixg.ubc.ca>
From: goo...@dg-rtp.dg.com (Chris Goolsby)
From: unda!skuk...@fuug.fi (Sami Kukkonen)
From: R J Wilkins <R.J.W...@ecs.southampton.ac.uk>
From: Sammy A Giglio <s893...@win4.vut.edu.au>
From: mave...@fir.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Vance Maverick)
From: s520...@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
From: "HRIBAR, LAWRENCE J" <LJ...@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu>
From: Robert Reinstatler <rein...@u.washington.edu>
From: md88...@nada.kth.se (Mike)
And a special thank you to: Red;
From: mea...@blade.wcc.govt.nz (Red)
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Lars Sprute
Not to forget his cover design of 'Brain Salad Surgery' of Emerson, Lake
and Palmer. See to get the LP, not the CD, cause the cover is folded.
Lars
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Stewart Tame
>In article <C1vq5...@dscomsa.desy.de> spr...@dsf58a.desy.de (Lars Sprute) writes:
>>
>>Not to forget his cover design of 'Brain Salad Surgery' of Emerson, Lake
>>and Palmer. See to get the LP, not the CD, cause the cover is folded.
>
>album name indeed was not there.
>
>I found it at a record shop on campus here for either 50 cents or a
>dollar. I'm not really into EL&P, but I do like Giger! :)
He also did the cover for Debbie Harry's _Koo Koo_ album and the new
Danzig album, whatever it's called. In addition, I've seen a few other
albums by various bands (Celtic Frost comes to mind) which appropriate
existing Giger paintings for their covers.
In the timeline in the Morpheus edition of _Necronomicon II_ an H.R.
Giger Tarot deck is mentioned. Does anyone know how I could get one,
and/or how much one would cost?
-- Stewart "doesn't do tarot but *wants* to get his hands
on that deck" Tame
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Pee-wee Herman, Bart Simpson, Tipper Gore, Murphy Brown, Maggie Thatcher,
and the Easter Bunny.
pgy...@ulys.unil.ch
> He also did the cover for Debbie Harry's _Koo Koo_ album and the new
> Danzig album, whatever it's called. In addition, I've seen a few other
> albums by various bands (Celtic Frost comes to mind) which appropriate
> existing Giger paintings for their covers.
>
> In the timeline in the Morpheus edition of _Necronomicon II_ an H.R.
> Giger Tarot deck is mentioned. Does anyone know how I could get one,
> and/or how much one would cost?
>
> -- Stewart "doesn't do tarot but *wants* to get his hands
> on that deck" Tame
The Tarot is not too difficult to find and is really great, but:
-it's awfully expensive
-there are no new drawings, all the pictures are from previously published
stuff (Arh+, Necronomicon, etc.)
-it's only published in german! (but I hope it'll be published in english
soon, I'll try to check if I can get any info about that...)
Some things previous posts forgot to mention:
-there is a Giger bar in Coire (HRG's natal town in Switzerland) andone is
to be opened (is already?) in Tokyo
-there is a Giger room in 'La maison d'aillleurs' (The house of elsewhere)
first (only) public science-fiction museum in Europe. Located in Yverdon,
Switzerland. A really great room with a huge seat made of black wood. I
think I saw a big alien in the museum too (not a real one of course but
quite impressing too...). HRG is sometimes in the museum himself (I met
him several times) and he speaks english quite well. If you're interested
in meeting him, you should ask to the museum. I belong to the museum support
members and have a family tie with HRG (not really proved, but I think our
ancestors come from the same little village in central Switzerland and my
name used to be written 'Giger' forty years ago...) but I think I cannot
contact him directly (I never tried but seems difficult).
-"Sauve qui peut", a swiss semiprozine (graphic novels) has just released
a special issue about HRG with a new work in it 'Le mystere du St-Gottard'
(spelling not sure) which is a film sketch with the "Biomecanoids" as heroes.
(Biomecanoids are those strange monsters made of an arm and a foot only).
I think I could still find some issues of it if someone is interested...
(but it's in french, sorry). If you want one, be quick, it's already hard
to find...
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Patrick J. Gyger (pgy...@ulys.unil.ch) University of Lausanne, History dpt.
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us..." (Bill Watterson)
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widmer christian
..
: > Danzig album, whatever it's called. In addition, I've seen a few other
It is called "How the gods kill"
: The Tarot is not too difficult to find and is really great, but:
: -it's awfully expensive
: -there are no new drawings, all the pictures are from previously published
: stuff (Arh+, Necronomicon, etc.)
: -it's only published in german! (but I hope it'll be published in english
: soon, I'll try to check if I can get any info about that...)
(Below is my personal view of the Giger-Tarot-Deck. Flame me if you
disagree...)
I really like Giger, but being also into the Tarot-Stuff (I`m collecting
Tarot-decks...) I have to say that the Giger Tarot is a _HUGE_
dissapointment. As mentioned above, only old pictures are used.
Furthermore the selection is not very appropriate, there were better
pictures around for most of the cards.
This is _not_ Gigers fault though. There was an exhibition of his works at
Zurich during August-Decembre and I've seen Giger himself there a few
times. He had made sketches for a really _new_ Deck of cards, but Acron
(the "Magician" whom I credit for the ill-selection, also the author of
the book which comes with the cards) didn't want to "waste" so much time
and instead convinced the publishers (AG Mueller Spielkartenfabrik
Neuhausen) and seemingly even Giger to use the old pictures.
I believe it is this Acron who wanted to make himself a name with the
Giger-Tarot (because he was virtually unknown before) and do so without
delay. So the Giger-Tarot became what it is: Nice cards for collectors
(like me) but not really a tarot...
Well it's just that I expected far more...
: Some things previous posts forgot to mention:
: -there is a Giger bar in Coire (HRG's natal town in Switzerland) andone is
: to be opened (is already?) in Tokyo
It's been open for years.
Giger is just now working on a fountain to be placed in Chur (Coire), too.
There is a new book with pencil sketches (out since fall), but it's
terrible...
The big books (Necronemicon, Necronomicon II, Passgagen, Biomechanoids,
New York, Alien) will from now on all be hard-covers and the price will
increase a little bit.
Well that's all the news I can give you.
BTW He absolutely does not like it if you try to visit him at home without
asking... (no, I haven't tried, but I've heard him say so... ;-) )
Chris
Fiona Webster
But the H. R. Giger 1993 calendar was omitted. It contains (natch)
12 illustrations, which may well be redundant with things already
published--I can list the titles if someone really wants me to.
Possible source for the Giger calendar, if they're not sold out, is
DreamHaven Books & Comics, in Minneapolis. (612) 379-0657 (Sometimes
I feel like these guys should pay me a bit, so often do I post their
phone number on the net...(-:)
Here's a recent posting of mine, to a mailing list, that is related to
the calendar:
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I've been remiss in not reporting on the Giger (that's "geeger"--both
hard g's) calendar for 1993. It has Giger illustrations, of course,
and is jetty black all over, but that's not why I'm remiss: obviously,
I can show you neither its pictures nor its blackness. But I can tell
you what Giger had decided is important to comment on, for each month
in the year.
* * * * * *
The month of January starts off with a quotation:
Literature satisfies me the most: Kafka, Gustav Meyrink's
_The_Golem_, H. P. Lovecraft. The horror that one has to
picture within one's own head. I've called my collections
_Necronomicon_ because Lovecraft was one of my greatest
sources of inspiration.
--H. R. Giger
Text from calendar for notable dates in January:
3 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien born this day in 1892.
17 In 1600, metaphysician Giordano Bruno was burned
at the stake in Rome for refusing to recant charges
of blasphemy and heresy. Bruno was one of the founding
fathers of modern scientific thought.
19 Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, born in 1809.
24 Saint-Saens' tone poem, "Danse Macabre," makes its
premiere in Paris in 1875.
26 Karel Capek's play, "R.U.R.," has its premiere at
Prague's National Theatre in 1921. The word "robot"
enters thee international lexicon.
27 The Surrealist Declaration of this date stated:
"Surrealism is a means for the total liberation of
the mind and everything that resembles it." It
was signed in Paris in 1925 by Max Ernst, Andre
Masson, and two dozen other surreal artists and
thinkers.
* * * * * *
A few quotations about the Surrealist movement (in art) from Robert
Hughes' _The_Shock_of_the_New_:
Surrealism wanted to set people free: to save them, as
evangelists and revolutionaries promise salvation, by an
act of faith. This faith was not in modernity, still less
in technology. . .Far from believing in Utopian technology,
most of them hardly knew how to change a light-bulb. They
would rather have been seen as bad priests than as good
engineers.
Surrealism. . .had, as a structure, much in common with the
Catholic religion, in whose embrace nearly all of its members
had grown up. It had dogmas and rituals, catechisms, saints,
baptisms, excommunications, a succession of Virgin Marys, and
a singularly demanding and touchy pope: Andre Breton (1896-1966).
The Surrealist cult of objects underlined. . .its belief that
_le_merveilleux_--that state of almost sexual excitement that
Breton called "convulsive beauty"--was available everywhere,
just below the skin of reality.
* * * * * *
Moving on into the month of February, here's the first of the notable
dates:
5 Birthday of H. R. Giger, born in Chur, Switzerland
in 1940.
Happy Birthday, Monsieur Giger! You's 53 years old today.
--surrealistically
(or even surreally)
yours,
Fiona
Catherine M Leonard
>
>In the timeline in the Morpheus edition of _Necronomicon II_ an H.R.
>Giger Tarot deck is mentioned. Does anyone know how I could get one,
>and/or how much one would cost?
>
> -- Stewart "doesn't do tarot but *wants* to get his hands
> on that deck" Tame
Want want want want want that Tarot deck. I'd like to know how to get it too.
Cate--who does do Tarot and *wants* to get her hands on that deck--Leonard
(with apologies to Stewart :-) )
Andrew Ford @ AGCS, Phoenix, Arizona
> Preface: This is a revised posting of the original which was sent out
> late in 1992. It includes approximately 200 lines of new information.
> Hope you enjoy it. Please send comments/corrections/material to the
> address below.
>
> Ice(_Feb._3_1993_)
>
> ========================================================================
>
> Thanks to all the people mentioned in the acknowledgements who responded
> to my request for information on H.R. Giger. I was really overwhelmed.
>
> It's when people are willing to help out like this which makes me really
> glad I took the time to learn Unix.
>
skills!
What the F### does this have to do with dreams?
*LEARN* how to use UNIX, *LEARN* to post in appropriate newsgroups!
Dork!
[sorry, it'a a bad morning and I just feel like being a prick -- no
I ain't gonna really shoot some little dork over a stupid crosspostin -
bullest cost me $.10 each you know!]
--
"25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with
no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, 4 out of 5 US murders are
committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?" - Andrew Ford
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