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New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller

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Buckminster Fuller is certainly one of my favorite and most inspiring personalities of the 20th century. This book is better than others that I read because it has a nice compilation of articles which not only talk about the artist, but also the history and world that he lived in. I highly recommend this book.

Many people revere Bucky Fuller as a guru/philosopher of the 1960s and 70s hippie generation. Yet if you ever tried to understand Fuller by reading his "Synergetics," chances are you didn't get very far. This new anthology offers multiple historical perspectives on a character who, in the end, was a human being woven firmly into the history of the times. Interesting --and readable--articles dealing with Fuller and his world.

It's been a long time since I thought about Bucky Fuller, but I read a review of this volume in "Leonardo" and thought it sounded intriguing. The essays in the book treat Fuller from a number of different points of view, not only as an idealistic thinker but also in relation to other things that were going on in the arts, architecture, and so on. Each essay does offer a new view on Fuller and it's well illustrated with documents from Fuller's own personal collection. I wouldn't call this a biography of Fuller although he's a central figure in each of the essays, but each essay is a point of view in itself showing how Fuller interacted with his contemporaries. Definitely recommended for those with a historical bent.