El nombre de hr. Giger es sinónimo de 30 años de arte fantástico. Elogiado como pintor por sus surrealistas paisajes oníricos y por su original estilo biomecánico. Giger obtuvo la fama con sus creaciones para Alien. , El Flim de Ridley Scout. Giger ha colaborado también para otras producciones en el cine, como poltergeist ii, Alien 3 y species, para las que diseño una mortífera, pero bellísima extraterrestre y un ferrocarril fantástico de pesadilla. Este volumen ha sido diseñado por el propio artista. Giger comenta aquí exhaustivamente su trabajo de creación artística desde los comienzos hasta el presente. De este modo, constituye un auténtico testimonio personal.

Como el Bosco o Breughel, Giger nos muestra implacablemente cómo se montan y se desmontan nuestras realidades.

Rob AlexanderRob Alexander is one of the most versatile and highly respected artists working today. He paints in watercolours that look more like oils or acylics. His painting style is subtle, beautiful and emotionally evocative. It has enabled him to work well in a number of diverse genres and markets. He has painted high fantasy, landscapes, action adventure, gothic horror and children's stories. Rob has worked in the publishing industry doing bookcovers for TOR, Harper Collins, Berkley and Del Rey. His images have been published in Amazing Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Cricket magazines. But to most people, he is the artist who paints pictures of sad-eyed women, eerie beings who perch in trees and carve mysterious messages in skulls, hauntingly beautiful landscapes, and young children who either discover, imagine or make beautiful, wondrous things. He was one of the original artists of the Magic the Gathering trading card game phenomenon and has done well over 130 images for the project to date. Magic is international and has been translated into eight languages, including Japanese.His work has appeared in eight other trading card games, including over 40 images for one based upon The Lord of the Rings, depicting many of the major characters and significant places from Tolkien's world. Rob has also done conceptual design work for video, computer and card games. His clients include Microsoft, Warner Bros., Hasbro, and a Wizards of the Coast/Nickelodeon joint venture. One of his projects was preliminary conceptual design for the Harry Potter collectable card game. He has been awarded the Chesley award from ASFA, the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists, appeared a number of times in Spectrum, a yearly book featuring the best in contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy, and won best of show at both World Con and World Fantasy Con, a show for professionals in the Science Fiction and Fantasy publishing industry.

Alfredo Truán fue un gijonés suizo, un artista plástico en las artes gráficas, un vanguardista en la figuración, un localista internacional y un mundano cosmopolita.Lo mejor de Truán que contiene este libro es su pierna en cada mundo -en el culto y en el popular, en el moderno y en el clasico, en el local y en el cosmopolita-, que le hace muy coetaneo de si mismo y muy retratista de su tiempo.

170 ilustraciones en color

Cátalogo de la exposición sobre el artista mexicano que presenta su obra sobre papel y un cuadro de gran formato.

In 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, enjoyed an intense cult following in the international gay community but was largely unknown to the broader audience. The Art of Pleasure gave Tom well-deserved recognition and increased his following exponentially; Tom of Finland XXL will fix him forever in the realm of fine art. At 29cm x 40.5cm and 666 pages, Tom of Finland XXL contains over 1,000 images, covering six decades of the artist''s career. The work was gathered from collections across the US and Europe with the help of the Tom of Finland Foundation, and features many drawings, paintings and sketches never previously reproduced. Other images have only been seen out of context and are presented here in the sequential order Tom intended for full artistic appreciation and erotic impact. This elegant oversized volume showcases the full range of Tom''s talent, from sensitive portraits to frank sexual pleasure to tender expressions of love and haunting tributes to young men struck down by AIDS. Completing this collector''s edition are eight specially commissioned essays on Tom''s social and personal impact by Camille Paglia, John Waters, Armistead Maupin, Todd Oldham, and others, plus a scholarly analysis of individual drawings by art historian Edward Lucie-Smith. For the manor womanwho thinks bigger is better, Tom of Finland XXL is certain to satisfy.