| Description |
1 online resource (100 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
A small, silent utopia, an introduction / by Josiah McElheny -- Der Lichtklub von Batavia : eine Damen-Novellette / von Paul Scheerbart -- The light club of Batavia : a ladies novelette / by Paul Scheerbart ; translated from the German by Wilhelm Werthern -- From the shadows, a poem / by Gregg Bordowitz and Ulrike Müller -- The club of visionaries, a play / by Andrea Geyer -- The light spa in the mine, a short story / by Josiah McElheny -- Über Scheerbart / von Georg Hecht -- About Scheerbart / by Georg Hecht ; translated from the German by Barbara Schroeder -- On Scheerbart, an essay / by Branden W. Joseph |
| Summary |
Paul Scheerbart (18631915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who made a lasting impression on such icons of modernism as Walter Benjamin, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius. Fascinated with the potential of glass architecture, Scheerbart's satirical fantasies envisioned an electrified future, a world composed entirely of crystalline, colored glass. In 1912, Scheerbart published The Light Club of Batavia, a Novelle about the formation of a club dedicated to building a spa for bathingnot in water, but in lightat the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft. Translated here into E |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915. Lichtklub von Batavia
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| SUBJECT |
Scheerbart, Paul. swd |
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Lichtklub von Batavia. swd |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hecht, Georg, 1885-
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Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915.
Lichtklub von Batavia. English & German
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| LC no. |
2009034325 |
| ISBN |
9780226514581 |
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0226514587 |
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