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Buckminster Fuller : starting with the universe / edited by K. Michael Hays, Dana Miller ; with essays by Antoine Picon, Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Calvin Tomkins.

Title
Buckminster Fuller : starting with the universe / edited by K. Michael Hays, Dana Miller ; with essays by Antoine Picon, Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Calvin Tomkins.
Publication
New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Yale University Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Hays, K. Michael
  • Miller, Dana
  • Picon, Antoine
  • Smith, Elizabeth A. T., 1958-
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
Description
xiii, 257 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
Summary
"From his geodesic dome to books popularizing the terms "spaceship earth" and "synergetics," the life mission of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was to create living environments that minimized consumption of the earth's resources while maximizing interconnections with global systems of information and transportation. This book explores Fuller's extraordinary body of work focusing on his wide-ranging and sometimes controversial role within the worlds of art, architecture, and utopian thought."--Jacket.
Series Statement
A Whitney Museum of American Art book
Uniform Title
Whitney Museum of American Art book.
Alternative Title
Starting with the universe
Subject
  • Fuller, R. Buckminster 1895-1983 > Exhibitions
  • Collage Musikgruppe
  • Ausstellung New York (N.Y.) 2008
  • Ausstellung Chicago (Ill.) 2009
  • 1900-2000
  • Visionary architecture > Exhibitions
  • Architecture and technology > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, June 26-Sept. 21, 2008.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-238) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Fuller's geological engagements with architecture / K. Michael Hays -- Thought patterns : Buckminster Fuller the scientist-artist / Dana Miller -- Fuller's avatars : a view from the present / Antoine Picon -- The comprehensivist : Buckminster Fuller and contemporary artists / Elizabeth A.T. Smith -- Plates -- In the outlaw area / Calvin Tomkins -- Selected contextual chronology / compiled by Jennie Goldstein.
ISBN
  • 9780300126204 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0300126204 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007046865
OCLC
  • 181730551
  • SCSB-11062553
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library