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Paul Scheerbart - Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!!: A Paul Scheerbart Reader - 9780226203003 - V9780226203003
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Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!!: A Paul Scheerbart Reader

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Description for Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!!: A Paul Scheerbart Reader Hardcover. German writer, critic, and theorist Paul Scheerbart died nearly a century ago, but his influence is still being felt today. This book offers a collection of Scheerbart's multifarious writings. Editor(s): McElheny, Josiah; Burgin, Christine. Num Pages: 320 pages, 64 colour plates, 48 halftones. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 187 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1188.
German writer, critic, and theorist Paul Scheerbart died nearly a century ago, but his influence is still being felt today. Considered by some a mad eccentric and by others an important visionary 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 function - 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 film-makers 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 and beautifully designed by Purtill Family Business, Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! is a long-overdue monument to a modern master.

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226203003
SKU
V9780226203003
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About Paul Scheerbart
Josiah McElheny is an artist living in New York. Christine Burgin is a publisher of books on art and literature.

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