Glass! Love!! Perpetual motion!!! : a Paul Scheerbart reader / edited by Josiah McElheny and Christine Burgin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915, author.

Contributor:

McElheny, Josiah, 1966- editor.

Burgin, Christine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915--Criticism and interpretation.

Scheerbart, Paul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York City ; Chicago : Christine Burgin Gallery : University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Scheerbart, The Unknowable

The Crystal Vision of Paul Scheerbart: A Brief Biography

I. GLASS ARCHITECTURE

Glass Architecture, 1914

Glass Houses: Bruno Taut’s Glass Palace at the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914.

Glass House: Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914

“Kaleidoscope-Architecture”: Scheerbart, Taut, and the Glass House

Glass Architecture, 1921

Fragments of Utopia: Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut

Glass House Letters, 1920

Untimely Meditations and Other Modernisms: On the Glass-Dream Visions of Bruno Taut and Paul Scheerbart

II. LOVE (AND OTHER FICTIONS)

A Strange Bird: Paul Scheerbart, or The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

Selected Short Stories, 1897–1912

III. A DREAM OF PERPETUAL MOTION

Perpetual Motion: The Story of an Invention, 1910

Perpetual Motion: A Summary, 1910

The Invention: A Cinematic Tale

IV. DEATH AND BEYOND

Scheerbart’s Fiftieth Birthday Party: An Interview with Egidio Marzona

On the Birth, Death and Rebirth of Dionysus: A Memorial Wreath for Paul Scheerbart’s Grave, 1919

A Letter from Bruno Taut to His Brother Max, 1915

“. . . variants of the seemingly imperfect . . .”: Thoughts on Paul Scheerbart and Walter Benjamin

The Gallery of the Beyond, 1907

V. A LIFE IN TITLES

Novels and Novelettes, Rhetorical Essays, and Prophetic Howls: A Bibliographic Poem

Credits

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780226203140

022620314X

OCLC:

1046634000