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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