A Paul Scheerbart Reader
ed. by Josiah McElheny and Christine Burgin
- Editor(s)
- Josiah McElheny, Christine Burgin
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014
- Scope
- 320 Pages, illustrated, 27 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780226203003
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!!! includes the influential architectural manifesto Glass Architecture and his literary tour-de-force Perpetual Motion: The Story of an Invention, next to a selection of his fantastical short stories . Several essays by scholars, novelists, and filmmakers were commissioned for this publication to illuminate Scheerbart’s importance, then and now, in the worlds of art, architecture, and culture.
- Person as subject
- Josiah McElheny, Paul Scheerbart
- Keywords
- utopia , architecture theory , glass architecture
- Location
- Cabinet 15 - 3: Architectuur en Kunst
- Extra themes
- Architecture and Art
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
