{"product_id":"eccentric-spaces-9780262581837","title":"Eccentric Spaces","description":"\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262581837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.97w x 0.51d","brand":"Robert Harbison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44087201726645,"sku":"9780262581837","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b4385282-0a99-4260-8094-f9a5b407ed7d.jpg?v=1714455915","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/eccentric-spaces-9780262581837","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}