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The Light Club: On Paul Scheerbart's "The Light Club of Batavia"
Josiah McElheny
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Description for The Light Club: On Paul Scheerbart's "The Light Club of Batavia"
Hardcover. Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist. He was fascinated with the potential of glass as a medium for expressionist architecture. This title describes Scheerbart's life, and explains the ways in which 'The Light Club of Batavia' inspired him to produce art of uncommon breadth. Num Pages: 104 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) 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 as a medium for expressionist architecture and moved by tales of the fantastic, Scheerbart envisioned the sublime through a series of futurist milieus composed entirely of crystalline, colored glass architecture. In 1912, Scheerbart published "The Light Club of Batavia", a novelette about the formation of a club dedicated to building a glass spa for bathing - not in water, but in light - at ... Read more
Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) 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 as a medium for expressionist architecture and moved by tales of the fantastic, Scheerbart envisioned the sublime through a series of futurist milieus composed entirely of crystalline, colored glass architecture. In 1912, Scheerbart published "The Light Club of Batavia", a novelette about the formation of a club dedicated to building a glass spa for bathing - not in water, but in light - at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226514574
SKU
V9780226514574
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About Josiah McElheny
Josiah McElheny is a New York - based contemporary artist, performance artist, and filmmaker best known for his use of glass with other materials. He has written for such publications as Artforum and Cabinet, is a contributing editor to BOMB, and was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur fellowship.
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