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Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! : A Paul Scheerbart Reader / Hardcover 2014
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022620300X
ISBN-13
9780226203003
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038265991
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Publication Name
Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! : a Paul Scheerbart Reader
Language
English
Subject
European / German, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Individual Architects & Firms / General
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Architecture
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
41.2 Oz
Item Length
10.3 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-014260
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Scheerbart's glass is iridescent, coloured, shaped; glass mosaic, glass prisms, 'glass hair', designed not to reflect, or to see through, but to create complex kaleidoscopic effects. The uses Scheerbart wants it put to are even more improbable and utopian, and phrased in his delightfully modest, gently insistent style. . . . Josiah McElheny's contemporary glass artworks, spread across the text, give much more of a sense of what Scheerbart expected from the glass world., An exciting and novel project that will encourage renewed attention to the beguiling and fantastical work of Paul Scheerbart, an indispensable figure for understanding the long heritage of our technologically permeated present., 'Colored glass destroys all hatred at last.' I want to think about this sentence--and Scheerbart--forever. Scheerbart invents possibility., There's really only one poet of architecture, and that's Paul Scheerbart. . . . Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! is a curious hybrid of ideas, idealism, and passion, shining an overdue spotlight on a singular artistic voice., An exciting and novel project that will encourage renewed attention to the beguiling and fantastical work of Paul Scheerbart, an indispensable figure for understanding the long heritage of our technologically permeated present., "I was delighted to discover . . . the first English language compendium of Scheerbart's work. . . . Scheerbart is well worth discovering--or rediscovering--not just because he was uncannily prescient, but because his good-natured manifestos are so at odds with those of his more famous contemporaries. Ornament in Scheerbart's universe is never a crime. Machines are objects of fascination, but we don't have to live in them. And most of the world's problems can be solved simply by building walls of multicolored glass." , There's really only one poet of architecture, and that's Paul Scheerbart. . . . Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! is a curious hybrid of ideas, idealism, and passion, shining an overdue spotlight on a singular artistic voice., Rarely are the obscure so richly resurrected as Scheerbart is in this dense, absorbing volume. While preserving his crystalline quirkiness it lays bare for the first time the nexus of dazzling visions, timely theories, and compulsive conjecturing that made him a singular figure in his own day and a beacon in ours . . ., This latest installment in the ongoing English-language discovery of Scheerbart (1863-1915) is well worth purchasing for its reissue of Glass Architecture above all but also for its enthusiastic celebration of this quirky, still-surprising author. . . . Recommended., Rarely are the obscure so richly resurrected as Scheerbart is in this dense, absorbing volume. While preserving his crystalline quirkiness it lays bare for the first time the nexus of dazzling visions, timely theories, and compulsive conjecturing that made him a singular figure in his own day and a beacon in ours . . ., I was delighted to discover . . . the first English language compendium of Scheerbart's work. . . . Scheerbart is well worth discovering--or rediscovering--not just because he was uncannily prescient, but because his good-natured manifestos are so at odds with those of his more famous contemporaries. Ornament in Scheerbart's universe is never a crime. Machines are objects of fascination, but we don't have to live in them. And most of the world's problems can be solved simply by building walls of multicolored glass.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
838.91209
Table Of Content
Scheerbart, The Unknowable Josiah McElheny and Christine Burgin The Crystal Vision of Paul Scheerbart: A Brief Biography Christopher Turner I GLASS ARCHITECTURE Glass Architecture, 1914 Paul Scheerbart Translated by James Palmes Illustrated by Josiah McElheny Glass Houses: Bruno Taut's Glass Palace at the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914. Paul Scheerbart Translated by Anne Posten Glass House: Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914 Bruno Taut Translated by Anne Posten "Kaleidoscope-Architecture": Scheerbart, Taut, and the Glass House Noam M. Elcott Glass Architecture, 1921 Bruno Taut Translated by Anne Posten Fragments of Utopia: Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut Rosemarie Haag Bletter Glass House Letters, 1920 Paul Scheerbart Translated by Anne Posten and Laura Lindgren Selected and introduced by Bruno Taut Untimely Meditations and Other Modernisms: On the Glass-Dream Visions of Bruno Taut and Paul Scheerbart Hollyamber Kennedy II LOVE (AND OTHER FICTIONS) A Strange Bird: Paul Scheerbart, or The Eccentricities of a Nightingale Gary Indiana Selected Short Stories, 1897-1912 Paul Scheerbart Translated by Susan Bernofsky and Anne Posten Illustrated by Paul Scheerbart A Trial in the Year 1901: A Novelette of the Future The Colored Moons: A Cosmosophical Scherzo The Love of Souls: A Spiritualistic Scene from a Novel Atlas, the Comfortable: A Myth of Humanity The Magnetic Mirror Transportable Cities The Glass Theater An Ornament Museum The Silent Dance of Courtly Society The Safe: A Marriage Novelette At the Glass Exhibition in Peking: The Old Baron's Diary Entries III A DREAM OF PERPETUAL MOTION Perpetual Motion: The Story of an Invention , 1910 Paul Scheerbart Translated by Susan Bernofsky Illustrated by Paul Scheerbart and Josiah McElheny Perpetual Motion: A Summary, 1910 Paul Scheerbart The Invention: A Cinematic Tale Guy Maddin IV DEATH AND BEYOND Scheerbart's Fiftieth Birthday Party: An Interview with Egidio Marzona Hubertus von Amelunxen Translated by Anne Posten On the Birth, Death and Rebirth of Dionysus: A Memorial Wreath for Paul Scheerbart's Grave, 1919 Anselm Ruest Translated by Anne Posten A Letter from Bruno Taut to His Brother Max, 1915 Translated by Anne Posten "... variants of the seemingly imperfect...": Thoughts on Paul Scheerbart and Walter Benjamin Hubertus von Amelunxen Translated by Anne Posten The Gallery of the Beyond, 1907 Text and images by Paul Scheerbart Translated by Anne Posten V A LIFE IN TITLES Novels and Novelettes, Rhetorical Essays, and Prophetic Howls: A Bibliographic Poem Josiah McElheny Credits Acknowledgments
Synopsis
The first collection in English of the selected writings of German writer, critic and theorist Paul Scheerbart Understudied during much of the 20th century, Scheerbart is a modernist not for his own time, but for ours. Today, the history of European modernism is being rewritten by a new generation of scholars who are energetically mining the archives to bring forward those figures eclipsed by more famous brethren. Scheerbart now occupies a seat in the modernist pantheon as one of the first theorists of glass architecture, which he developed with Bruno Taut, and as an innovator of meta-fiction (pataphysical fiction), long before the likes of Perec and Borges (both of whom admired him). In his own time, Scheerbart was viewed as a dilettante or too eccentric by mainstream academics and critics, for he produced not just theory, but short stories, novels, plays, and the literary prank Perpetual Motion. Perpetual Motion was written in the guise of a scientific treatise on motion, though in fact it is a total fiction, even down to the diagrams. But when first published--and in fact until recently--it was received as a genuine motion study and became part of the literature on that subject. Scheerbart is admired today by architects for a visionary work titled Glass Architecture. Both of those works are included in this collection edited by artist Josiah McElheny and the legendary publisher Christine Burgin (our copublisher) as well as a selection of Scheerbart's fiction, plus a peppering of short critical and biographical essays by other people as well as the first full bibliography of Scheerbart's writings., 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
PT2638.E4A2 2014
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- 7***8 (45)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseFantastic seller, CD's dispatched quickly and arrived from USA to Vic Australia in several weeks well before the suggested postage time, CD,'s play terrific some minor noises which is to be expected, very hard to get OTR on Cd's as they are usually on DVD which I don't want as they are not portable when walking, I certainly recommend seller and would purchase more but does not have a lot OTR titles on CD, postage rates were also much more affordable than most other USA sellers, great item.
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