The Light Club : On Paul Scheerbart's "The Light Club of Batavia"

Name: The Light Club : On Paul Scheerbart's "The Light Club of Batavia"
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

The Light ClubOn Paul Scheerbart's \""The Light Club of Batavia\""\nAuthor(s): Josiah McElheny\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226514574, 978-0226514574\nSynopsis\nPaul Scheerbart [tel] 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 the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft. Translated here into English for the first time, this rare story serves as .