Main entry:

Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York City : Christine Burgin Gallery ; Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

319 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
A selection of Paul Scheerbart's writings, including Glass architecture and Perpetual motion, as well as a collection of contemporary essays and responses.
Includes bibliographical references.
Scheerbart, the unknowable / Josiah McElheny and Christine Burgin -- The crystal vision of Paul Scheerbart: a brief biography / Christopher Turner -- 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 -- A strange bird: Paul Scheerbart, or the eccentricities of a nightingale / Gary Indiana -- Selected short stories, 1897-1912 [11 items] / Paul Scheerbart ; translated by Susan Bernofsky and Anne Posten ; illustrated by Paul Scheerbart -- 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 -- Scheerbart's fiftieth birthday party: an interview 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 Reust ; 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 -- Novels and novelettes, rhetorical essays, and prophetic howls: a bibliographic poem / Josiah McElheny.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

A selection of Paul Scheerbart's writings, including "Glass architecture" and "Perpetual motion", as well as a collection of contemporary essays and responses.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780226203003 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
022620300X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
(e-book)
9780226203140

Subject:

Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915 Criticism and interpretation.
Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915
LITERARY CRITICISM European German.
(fast)Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915
(bisacsh)LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
(fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc

Form/genre:

Writings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Erzählende Literatur

Added entries:

McElheny, Josiah, 1966- editor.
Burgin, Christine, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287612
Call No.: BIB 228781
Status: Available