{"id":508,"date":"2014-05-13T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/05\/13\/h-r-giger-artist-of-the-alien-dies-at-74\/"},"modified":"2014-05-13T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T16:31:00","slug":"h-r-giger-artist-of-the-alien-dies-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/05\/13\/h-r-giger-artist-of-the-alien-dies-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"H. R. Giger, artist of the Alien, dies at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-BhDL3i5Q1z8\/U3JIuKaj3II\/AAAAAAAABGs\/ILsGY4xwHf0\/s1600\/alien.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-BhDL3i5Q1z8\/U3JIuKaj3II\/AAAAAAAABGs\/ILsGY4xwHf0\/s1600\/alien.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"156\" \/><\/a>Swedish surrealistic H. R. Giger died today at 74. Though he worked primarily in painting and sculpting, Giger is best remembered as the designer of the terrifying and highly Freudian architecture and creatures from Ridley Scott&#8217;s <i>Alien<\/i> franchise. Giger designed much of the iconic, dark, and twisted art of that world \u2013 from infested hallways in <i>Aliens<\/i> to the xenomorphs themselves. His style of quasi-organic and arguably erotic machinery indelibly changed the face of futuristic design, affecting everything from <i>Predator<\/i> to&nbsp;<i>Man of Steel<\/i> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giger_Bar\">a Giger-themed bar in Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Giger&#8217;s legacy, we recommend watching the <i>Alien<\/i> series (including <i>Prometheus<\/i>) that remain his most beloved creations. Though they are among his only contributions to movies, they are perhaps some of the most influential images captured on film.<\/p>\n<p>Alien \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5855426\">HU DVD 885<\/a><br \/>Aliens \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5842732\">HU DVD 886<\/a><br \/>Alien 3 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5916121\">HU DVD 887<\/a><br \/>Prometheus \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=12026162\">HU DVD 10496<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish surrealistic H. R. Giger died today at 74. Though he worked primarily in painting and sculpting, Giger is best remembered as the designer of the terrifying and highly Freudian architecture and creatures from Ridley Scott&#8217;s Alien franchise. Giger designed much of the iconic, dark, and twisted art of that world \u2013 from infested hallways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-related-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}