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The Light Club : On Paul Scheerbart's 'The Light Club of Batavia' by Josiah McElheny with contributions by Gregg Bordowitz, Ulrike Müller, Andrea Geyer, and Branden W. Joseph; translations by Wilhelm Werthern and Barbara Schroeder; original texts in German by Paul Scheerbart and Georg Hecht is a art available to read on EtoBox.
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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 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 f
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- Author
- Josiah McElheny with contributions by Gregg Bordowitz, Ulrike Müller, Andrea Geyer, and Branden W. Joseph; translations by Wilhelm Werthern and Barbara Schroeder; original texts in German by Paul Scheerbart and Georg Hecht
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226514581
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Architecture, Literary Fiction, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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