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Eccentric Spaces
Eccentric Spaces
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"Eccentric Spaces . . . makes me want to rush out in every direction at once and reexamine all I have ever seen. You can hardly ask a book to do more than that." -- Anatole Broyard, New York Times "It awakens the reader to the space around him, and it is a reminder of how much we want from the world." -- Richard Todd, Atlantic ... more » Like all of Robert Harbison's works, Eccentric Spaces is a hybrid, informed by the author's interests in art, architecture, fiction, poetry, landscape, geography, history, and philosophy. The subject is the human imagination--and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure. Palaces and haunted houses, Victorian parlors, Renaissance sculpture gardens, factories, hill-towns, ruins, cities, even novels and paintings constructed around such environments--these are the spaces over which the author broods. Brilliantly learned, deliberately remote in form from conventional scholarship, Eccentric Spaces is a magical book, an intellectual adventure, a celebration. Since its original publication in 1977, Eccentric Spaces has had a devoted readership. Now it is available to be discovered by a new generation of readers.
Author:
"Eccentric Spaces . . . makes me want to rush out in every direction at once and reexamine all I have ever seen. You can hardly ask a book to do more than that." -- Anatole Broyard, New York Times "It awakens the reader to the space around him, and it is a reminder of how much we want from the world." -- Richard Todd, Atlantic ... more » Like all of Robert Harbison's works, Eccentric Spaces is a hybrid, informed by the author's interests in art, architecture, fiction, poetry, landscape, geography, history, and philosophy. The subject is the human imagination--and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure. Palaces and haunted houses, Victorian parlors, Renaissance sculpture gardens, factories, hill-towns, ruins, cities, even novels and paintings constructed around such environments--these are the spaces over which the author broods. Brilliantly learned, deliberately remote in form from conventional scholarship, Eccentric Spaces is a magical book, an intellectual adventure, a celebration. Since its original publication in 1977, Eccentric Spaces has had a devoted readership. Now it is available to be discovered by a new generation of readers.
ISBN-13: 9780262581837
ISBN-10: 0262581833
Publication Date: 3/17/2000
Pages: 192
Rating: ?
ISBN-10: 0262581833
Publication Date: 3/17/2000
Pages: 192
Rating: ?
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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