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by Robert Harbison

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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.

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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  • Title Eccentric Spaces
  • Author Robert Harbison
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date 2000-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Maps
  • ISBN 9780262581837 / 0262581833
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 5.97 x 0.51 in (22.73 x 15.16 x 1.30 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Architecture
  • Library of Congress subjects Arts, Space (Art)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99054640
  • Dewey Decimal Code 700

About the author

Robert Harbison has lectured widely on architecture at the Museum of Modem Art in New York, the University of Toronto, Stanford University, Cornell University, and the Architectural Association, London. His previous books include Eccentric Spaces, Deliberate Regression, and Pharaoh's Dream.
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