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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 Monthly " 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 Monthly
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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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Every garden is a replica, a representation, an attempt to recapture something, but the form it finds for the act is that of a mental picture, so in spite of its special properties a garden is just another of the images of art. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Every garden is a replica, a representation, an attempt to recapture something, but the form it finds for the act is that of a mental picture, so in spite of its special properties a garden is just another of the images of art. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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Harbison is a truly wonderful writer who pulls you along a fantastic journey through the annals of art, architecture and literature. A startling curiosity lends itself to a multifaceted reading of the text. Would thoroughly recommend (especially to those who are finding themselves slightly outside of the mainstream and looking for an insight into what one can begin to appreciate in "eccentric spaces").
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One of the oddest and most beautiful books I have ever read
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9 Aug 2004
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I've read this book three times. After the first two readings, I still had no clue what the book was even about. I mentioned this to my sister, and she found that rather mystifying. So I tried again, with not much more luck. I am giving this four stars because there must be something here, since I keep re-reading it. I've even got it on my Wish List to buy it and try it for a fourth time.
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