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A revisionist look at Buckminster Fuller's early career, making the case that Fuller's most successful invention was that of his own image.
Buckminster Fuller's fame reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when his visionary experiments struck a chord with the counterculture and his charismatic personality provided the media with a good story--that of a genius who could play the role of artist, scientist, and entrepreneur all at once. In Becoming Bucky Fuller, Loretta Lorance shows that Fuller's career did not begin with the lofty goals hailed by his admirers, and that, in fact, Fuller's image as guru and prophet was as carefully constructed as a geodesic dome. Fuller (1895-1983) determined early on how the story of his life in the 1920s and 1930s should be portrayed. But, drawing on a close reading of Fuller's personal papers (in particular, the multivolume scrapbook, Chronofile), Lorance looks at Fuller's first independent project, the Dymaxion House, and finds that what really happened differs from the authorized version. According to Fuller himself and most secondary sources, after a series of personal crises in the 1920s--including the death of his young daughter, thoughts of suicide, and a "year of silence" during which he pondered his purpose in life--Fuller resolved to devote himself to the betterment of society by offering the public economical, efficient, modern manufactured housing. But the private papers tell a different story; one of his initial motivations for designing the Dymaxion House was simply to make money from its manufacture. When that didn't work, Fuller began to emphasize its possibilities rather than its practicalities. By the mid-1930s, Lorance shows, Fuller the public figure had gone from being an entrepreneur with a product to being a visionary with an idea. He had become Bucky Fuller.
EdituraMIT Press Ltd
Dimensiuni229 x 178 x 22
Data Publicarii11/03/2019
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Numar pagini306
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O privire revizionista asupra carierei timpurii a lui Buckminster Fuller, facand ca inventia cea mai reusita a lui Fuller sa fie cea a propriei sale imagini. Faima lui Buckminster Fuller a atins apogeul in anii 1960 si 1970, cand experimentele sale vizionare au dat un acord cu contracultura si personalitatea sa carismatica. a oferit mass-media o poveste buna - cea a unui geniu care ar putea juca rolul de artist, om de stiinta si antreprenor dintr-o data.