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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.

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Book category Books in English The arts The arts: general issues Theory of art

• Full title: Eccentric Spaces
• Author: Robert Harbison
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780262581837
• ISBN: 0262581833
• ID: 04562346
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 320 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 152 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. February 2000

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