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Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!!: A Paul Scheerbart Reader de Paul Scheerbart

Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!!: A Paul Scheerbart Reader

Autor Paul Scheerbart Editat de Josiah McElheny, Christine Burgin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 oct 2014

În calitate de critici și curatori ai acestui volum, Josiah McElheny și Christine Burgin nu oferă doar o antologie, ci ridică un monument vizual și intelectual unei figuri care a pendulat între geniu profetic și excentricitate pură. Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! reprezintă prima incursiune comprehensivă în limba engleză în universul lui Paul Scheerbart, un vizionar care a visat lumi de cristal cu mult înaintea zgârie-norilor de astăzi. Apreciem în mod deosebit calitatea tactilă a ediției hardback, unde cele 64 de planșe color și desenele de epocă transformă lectura într-o experiență senzorială imersivă.

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care editorii au structurat progresia volumului. Cartea debutează cu fundamentul teoretic al „Arhitecturii de Sticlă” (1914), continuă cu dialogul fascinant dintre Scheerbart și Bruno Taut și se ramifică spre proza sa fantastică și pseudo-științifică. Putem afirma că inima cărții este „Perpetual Motion”, o lucrare prezentată sub masca unui tratat tehnic, dar care ascunde o ficțiune profundă. Ca și The Light Club, această antologie pune în valoare fascinația autorului pentru lumină și transparență, dar cu un accent pe dimensiunea politică și utopică a spațiului construit. Dacă în lucrări precum Lesabéndio explorăm utopia intergalactică, aici vedem cum acele viziuni se ancorează în proiecte concrete, precum Pavilionul de Sticlă de la expoziția Werkbund.

Integrarea eseurilor semnate de academicieni și artiști contemporani oferă contextul necesar pentru a înțelege de ce Scheerbart este considerat astăzi un precursor al modernismului. Stilul său, adesea satiric și plin de diagrame tehnice inventate, este pus în dialog cu arta nouă creată special pentru acest volum de Josiah McElheny, creând o punte între avangarda de la 1900 și sensibilitatea contemporană.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226203003
ISBN-10: 022620300X
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 64 color plates, 48 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 36 mm
Greutate: 1.19 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această antologie este esențială pentru arhitecți, istorici de artă și pasionații de beletristică speculativă. Cititorul câștigă acces la mintea unui vizionar care a anticipat estetica sticlei și a luminii, totul într-o ediție de lux, bogat ilustrată. Este o oportunitate rară de a descoperi umorul și rigoarea teoretică ale lui Scheerbart, un autor care a demonstrat că utopia poate fi desenată cu precizie tehnică.

Despre autor

Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915) a fost un autor german de literatură speculativă și artist, cunoscut ca teoretician al arhitecturii expresioniste. Sub pseudonimul Kuno Küfer sau prin nume propriu, el a promovat ideea că arhitectura din sticlă colorată ar putea transforma societatea și moralitatea umană. A fost un colaborator apropiat al arhitectului Bruno Taut, pentru al cărui Pavilion de Sticlă a scris poeme aforistice. Opera sa, care include manifestul „Glasarchitektur”, a exercitat o influență profundă asupra școlii Bauhaus și a gânditorilor moderniști, rămânând o referință pentru fuziunea dintre tehnologie, artă și misticism.

Descriere scurtă

German writer, critic, and theorist Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915) died nearly a century ago, but his influence is still being felt today. Considered by some a mad eccentric and by others a visionary political thinker in his own time, he is now experiencing a revival thanks to a new generation of scholars who are rightfully situating him in the modernist pantheon.

Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! is the first collection of Scheerbart’s multifarious writings to be published in English. In addition to a selection of his fantastical short stories, it includes the influential architectural manifesto Glass Architecture and his literary tour-de-force Perpetual Motion: The Story of an Invention. The latter, written in the guise of a scientific work (complete with technical diagrams), was taken as such when first published but in reality is a fiction—albeit one with an important message. Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! is richly illustrated with period material, much of it never before reproduced, including a selection of artwork by Paul Scheerbart himself. Accompanying this original material is a selection of essays by scholars, novelists, and filmmakers commissioned for this publication to illuminate Scheerbart’s importance, then and now, in the worlds of art, architecture, and culture.
 
Coedited by artist Josiah McElheny and Christine Burgin, with new artwork created for this publication by McElheny, Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! is a long-overdue monument to a modern master.

Notă biografică

Josiah McElheny is an artist living in New York. Christine Burgin is a publisher of books on art and literature.
 

Cuprins

Scheerbart, The Unknowable
Josiah McElheny and Christine Burgin

The Crystal Vision of Paul Scheerbart: A Brief Biography
Christopher Turner

I  GLASS ARCHITECTURE

Glass Architecture, 1914
Paul Scheerbart | Translated by James Palmes
Illustrated by Josiah McElheny

Glass Houses: Bruno Taut’s Glass Palace at the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914.
Paul Scheerbart | Translated by Anne Posten

Glass House: Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914
Bruno Taut | Translated by Anne Posten

“Kaleidoscope-Architecture”:
Scheerbart, Taut, and the Glass House
Noam M. Elcott

Glass Architecture, 1921
Bruno Taut | Translated by Anne Posten

Fragments of Utopia: Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut
Rosemarie Haag Bletter

Glass House Letters, 1920
Paul Scheerbart | Translated by Anne Posten and Laura Lindgren
Selected and introduced by Bruno Taut
 
Untimely Meditations and Other Modernisms: On the Glass-Dream Visions of Bruno Taut and Paul Scheerbart
Hollyamber Kennedy

II  LOVE (AND OTHER FICTIONS)
A Strange Bird: Paul Scheerbart, or The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Gary Indiana

Selected Short Stories, 1897–1912
Paul Scheerbart | Translated by Susan Bernofsky and Anne Posten
Illustrated by Paul Scheerbart
 
A Trial in the Year 1901: A Novelette of the Future
The Colored Moons: A Cosmosophical Scherzo 
The Love of Souls: A Spiritualistic Scene from a Novel
Atlas, the Comfortable: A Myth of Humanity
The Magnetic Mirror
Transportable Cities
The Glass Theater
An Ornament Museum
The Silent Dance of Courtly Society
The Safe: A Marriage Novelette
At the Glass Exhibition in Peking: The Old Baron’s Diary Entries

III  A DREAM OF PERPETUAL MOTION

Perpetual Motion: The Story of an Invention, 1910
Paul Scheerbart | Translated by Susan Bernofsky
Illustrated by Paul Scheerbart and Josiah McElheny

Perpetual Motion: A Summary, 1910
Paul Scheerbart

The Invention: A Cinematic Tale
Guy Maddin
 
IV  DEATH AND BEYOND

Scheerbart’s Fiftieth Birthday Party: An Interview with Egidio Marzona
Hubertus von Amelunxen | Translated by Anne Posten

On the Birth, Death and Rebirth of Dionysus: A Memorial Wreath for Paul Scheerbart’s Grave, 1919
Anselm Ruest | Translated by Anne Posten

A Letter from Bruno Taut to His Brother Max, 1915
Translated by Anne Posten

“... variants of the seemingly imperfect...”:
Thoughts on Paul Scheerbart and Walter Benjamin
Hubertus von Amelunxen | Translated by Anne Posten

The Gallery of the Beyond, 1907
Text and images by Paul Scheerbart | Translated by Anne Posten

V  A LIFE IN TITLES

Novels and Novelettes, Rhetorical Essays, and Prophetic Howls: A Bibliographic Poem
Josiah McElheny

Credits
Acknowledgments

Recenzii

“This latest installment in the ongoing English-language discovery of Scheerbart (1863–1915) is well worth purchasing for its reissue of Glass Architecture above all but also for its enthusiastic celebration of this quirky, still-surprising author. . . . Recommended."

“I was delighted to discover . . . the first English language compendium of Scheerbart’s work. . . . Scheerbart is well worth discovering—or rediscovering—not just because he was uncannily prescient, but because his good-natured manifestos are so at odds with those of his more famous contemporaries. Ornament in Scheerbart’s universe is never a crime. Machines are objects of fascination, but we don’t have to live in them. And most of the world’s problems can be solved simply by building walls of multicolored glass.” 

“There’s really only one poet of architecture, and that’s Paul Scheerbart. . . . Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! is a curious hybrid of ideas, idealism, and passion, shining an overdue spotlight on a singular artistic voice.”

“Scheerbart’s glass is iridescent, coloured, shaped; glass mosaic, glass prisms, ‘glass hair’, designed not to reflect, or to see through, but to create complex kaleidoscopic effects. The uses Scheerbart wants it put to are even more improbable and utopian, and phrased in his delightfully modest, gently insistent style. . . . Josiah McElheny’s contemporary glass artworks, spread across the text, give much more of a sense of what Scheerbart expected from the glass world.”

“‘Colored glass destroys all hatred at last.’ I want to think about this sentence—and Scheerbart—forever. Scheerbart invents possibility.”

“Rarely are the obscure so richly resurrected as Scheerbart is in this dense, absorb­ing volume. While preserving his crystalline quirkiness it lays bare for the first time the nexus of dazzling visions, timely theories, and compulsive conjecturing that made him a singular figure in his own day and a beacon in ours . . .”

“An exciting and novel project that will encourage renewed attention to the beguil­ing and fantastical work of Paul Scheerbart, an indispensable figure for under­standing the long heritage of our technologically permeated present.”