Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!!
A Paul Scheerbart Reader
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The Crystal Vision of Paul Scheerbart: A Brief Biography
I GLASS ARCHITECTURE
Glass Architecture, 1914
Illustrated by Josiah McElheny
Glass Houses: Bruno Taut’s Glass Palace at the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914.
Glass House: Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914
“Kaleidoscope-Architecture”:
Scheerbart, Taut, and the Glass House
Glass Architecture, 1921
Fragments of Utopia: Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut
Glass House Letters, 1920
II LOVE (AND OTHER FICTIONS)
A Strange Bird: Paul Scheerbart, or The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Selected Short Stories, 1897–1912
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
Perpetual Motion: A Summary, 1910
The Invention: A Cinematic Tale
Scheerbart’s Fiftieth Birthday Party: An Interview with Egidio Marzona
On the Birth, Death and Rebirth of Dionysus: A Memorial Wreath for Paul Scheerbart’s Grave, 1919
A Letter from Bruno Taut to His Brother Max, 1915
“... variants of the seemingly imperfect...”:
Thoughts on Paul Scheerbart and Walter Benjamin
The Gallery of the Beyond, 1907
V A LIFE IN TITLES
Novels and Novelettes, Rhetorical Essays, and Prophetic Howls: A Bibliographic Poem
Credits
Acknowledgments
Architecture: Architecture--Criticism
Art: Art--General Studies
History: European History
Literature and Literary Criticism: Germanic Languages
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