The Light Club
On Paul Scheerbart's The Light Club of Batavia
by Josiah McElheny ; with contr. by Gregg Bordowitz, Ulrike Müller, Andrea Geyer, and Branden W. Joseph ; original texts in German by Paul Scheerbart and Georg Hecht

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Author(s)

Josiah McElheny, Gregg Bordowitz, Ulrike Müller, Andrea Geyer, Branden W. Joseph, Paul Scheerbart, Georg Hecht

Publication, year

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago , 2010

Scope

100 Pages, illustrated, 22 cm.

ISBN

9780226514574

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Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who was fascinated with the potential of glass architecture, and who made a lasting impression on Walther Benjamin, Bruno Taut, and Walther Gropius. His satirical fantasies envisioned an electrified future, a world composed entirely of crystalline, colored glass.

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Person as subject

Paul Scheerbart, Josiah McElheny

Location

Cabinet 15 - 3: Architectuur en Kunst

Extra themes

Architecture and Art

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References