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  1. The gray cloth
    Paul Scheerbart's novel on glass architecture
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]

    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Stuart, John A. (Übers.); Scheerbart, Paul
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0262194600
    Other identifier:
    9780262194600
    Subjects: Architecture in literature; Architecture in literature
    Other subjects: Scheerbart, Paul; Scheerbart, Paul (1863-1915): Graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiss; Array
    Scope: XLIX, 143 S, Ill
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references

  2. The gray cloth
    Paul Scheerbart's novel on glass architecture
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]

    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
    ::8:2002:2431
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    Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Bibliothek
    Magazin Lit Scheerbart, P. 2001
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    T 02 B 520
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2002 C 530
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    10-2785
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    Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Bibliothek
    K (Das Graue Tuch,engl.)
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Stuart, John A. (Übers.); Scheerbart, Paul
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0262194600
    Other identifier:
    9780262194600
    Subjects: Architecture in literature; Architecture in literature
    Other subjects: Scheerbart, Paul; Scheerbart, Paul (1863-1915): Graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiss; Array
    Scope: XLIX, 143 S, Ill
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references

  3. <<The>> gray cloth
    a novel on glass architecture
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  MIT Pr., Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]

    A cult novel, with a critical introduction, by the German expressionist visionary Paul Scheerbart.The German expressionist, architectural visionary, author, inventor, and artist Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) wrote several fictional utopian narratives... more

     

    A cult novel, with a critical introduction, by the German expressionist visionary Paul Scheerbart.The German expressionist, architectural visionary, author, inventor, and artist Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) wrote several fictional utopian narratives related to glass architecture. In The Gray Cloth, the first of his novels to be translated into English, Scheerbart uses subtle irony and the structural simplicity of a fairy tale to present the theories of colored glass outlined in his well-known treatise Glass Architecture.The novel is set forward in time to the mid-twentieth century. The protagonist, a Swiss architect named Edgar Krug, circumnavigates the globe by airship with his wife, constructing wildly varied, colored-glass buildings. His projects include a high-rise and exhibition/concert hall in Chicago, a retirement complex for air pilots on the Fiji Islands, the structure for an elevated train across a zoological park in northern India, and a suspended residential villa on the Kuria Muria Islands off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea. Fearing that his architecture is challenged by the colorfulness of women's clothing, Krug insists that his wife wear all gray clothing with the addition of ten percent white. This odd demand brings him notoriety and sensationalizes his international building campaign. For the reader, it underlines the confluence of architecture with fashion, gender, and global media.In his introduction, John Stuart surveys Scheerbart's career and role in German avant-garde circles, as well as his architectural and social ideas. He shows how Scheerbart strove to integrate his spiritual and romantic leanings with the modern world, often relying on glass architecture to do so. In addition to discussing the novel's reception and its rediscovery by contemporary architects and critics, Stuart shows fiction to be a resource for the study of architecture and places The Gray Cloth in the context of German Expressionism. Der deutsche Expressionist, Architekturvisionär, Autor, Erfinder und Künstler Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) schrieb mehrere fiktive utopische Erzählungen über Glasarchitektur. In The Gray Cloth, dem ersten seiner Romane, der ins Englische übersetzt wurde, verwendet Scheerbart subtile Ironie und die strukturelle Einfachheit eines Märchens, um die Theorien über farbiges Glas zu präsentieren, die er in seiner bekannten Abhandlung Glass Architecture dargelegt hat.Der Roman ist zeitlich in der Mitte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts angesiedelt. Der Protagonist, ein Schweizer Architekt namens Edgar Krug, umrundet mit seiner Frau in einem Luftschiff die Welt und baut die unterschiedlichsten Gebäude aus farbigem Glas. Zu seinen Projekten gehören ein Hochhaus und eine Ausstellungs- und Konzerthalle in Chicago, ein Rentenkomplex für Piloten auf den Fidschi-Inseln, die Struktur einer Hochbahn durch einen zoologischen Park in Nordindien und eine schwebende Wohnvilla auf den Kuria Muria-Inseln vor der Küste Omans im Arabischen Meer. Da er befürchtet, dass seine Architektur durch die Farbenpracht der Frauenkleidung in Frage gestellt wird, besteht Krug darauf, dass seine Frau ausschließlich graue Kleidung mit einem Anteil von zehn Prozent Weiß trägt. Diese merkwürdige Forderung macht ihn berühmt und lässt seine internationale Baukampagne zu einer Sensation werden. Für den Leser verdeutlicht sie die Verflechtung von Architektur mit Mode, Geschlecht und globalen Medien.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Stuart, John A. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0262692961; 0262194600
    Subjects: Glass construction
    Scope: XLIX, 143 S., Ill., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. [139] - 143