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Title: GLASS! LOVE!! PERPETUAL MOTION!!!
A PAUL SCHEERBART READER
By: Josiah McElheny (Editor), Christine Burgin (Editor)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 022620300X
ISBN 13: 9780226203003
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Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Pub. date: 3 October, 2014
Pages: 320
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: 64 colour plates, 48 halftones
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
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