{"product_id":"eccentric-spaces-9780262581837","title":"Eccentric Spaces","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Harbison\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mit Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all of Robert Harbison's works, \u003ci\u003eEccentric Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalaces 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, \u003ci\u003eEccentric Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e is a magical book, an intellectual adventure, a celebration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its original publication in 1977, \u003ci\u003eEccentric Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e has had a devoted readership. Now it is available to be discovered by a new generation of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mit Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45031287947415,"sku":"9780262581837","price":1599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262581837.webp?v=1769206582","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/eccentric-spaces-9780262581837","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}