The Light Club: On Paul Scheerbart's the Light Club of Batavia McElheny Josiah
The Light Club: On Paul Scheerbart's the Light Club of Batavia McElheny Josiah Paul Scheerbart (1863 1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who made a lasting impression on…
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The Light Club: On Paul Scheerbart's the Light Club of Batavia McElheny Josiah
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. Translated here into English for the first time, this rare story serves as a point of departure for Josiah McElheny, who, with an esteemed group of collaborators, offers a fascinating array of responses to this enigmatic work. 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 for bathing not in water, but in light at the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft.
"The Light Club" makes clear that the themes of utopian hope, desire, and
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