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Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!!: A Paul Scheerbart Reader
Contributor(s): Scheerbart, Paul (Author), McElheny, Josiah (Editor), Burgin, Christine (Editor)
ISBN: 022620300X     ISBN-13: 9780226203003
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE:   $40.85  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - General
- Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)
- Literary Criticism | European - German
Dewey: 838.912
LCCN: 2014014260
Physical Information: 1.34" H x 7.23" W x 10.28" (2.64 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Germany
 
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Publisher Description:
German writer, critic, and theorist Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) died nearly a century ago, but his influence is still being felt today. Considered by some a mad eccentric and by others a visionary political thinker in his own time, he is now experiencing a revival thanks to a new generation of scholars who are rightfully situating him in the modernist pantheon.
Glass Love Perpetual Motion is the first collection of Scheerbart's multifarious writings to be published in English. In addition to a selection of his fantastical short stories, it includes the influential architectural manifesto Glass Architecture and his literary tour-de-force Perpetual Motion: The Story of an Invention. The latter, written in the guise of a scientific work (complete with technical diagrams), was taken as such when first published but in reality is a fiction--albeit one with an important message. Glass Love Perpetual Motion is richly illustrated with period material, much of it never before reproduced, including a selection of artwork by Paul Scheerbart himself. Accompanying this original material is a selection of essays by scholars, novelists, and filmmakers commissioned for this publication to illuminate Scheerbart's importance, then and now, in the worlds of art, architecture, and culture.

Coedited by artist Josiah McElheny and Christine Burgin, with new artwork created for this publication by McElheny, Glass Love Perpetual Motion is a long-overdue monument to a modern master.


Contributor Bio(s): Scheerbart, Paul: - Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a German writer and artist. He wrote novels and poems and was associated with expressionist art and architecture. He is best known for the book Glasarchitektur (1914).Burgin, Christine: - Christine Burgin is a publisher of books on art and literature.