Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller (Signed)

Morrow, 1973-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. Signed. [Association copy, inscribed by Hugh Kenner on title page.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Moderate foxing. Small marking on rear end page, else unmarked. *Autographed by author.* <br> R. Buckminster Fuller was a renowned 20th century inventor and visionary born in Milton, Massachusetts on July 12, 1895. Dedicating his life to making the world work for all of humanity, Fuller operated as a practical philosopher who demonstrated his ideas as inventions that he called 'artifacts.' Fuller did not limit himself to one field but worked as a 'comprehensive anticipatory design scientist' to solve global problems surrounding housing, shelter, transportation, education, energy, ecological destruction, and poverty. Throughout the course of his life Fuller held 28 patents, authored 28 books, received 47 honorary degrees. And while his most well know artifact, the geodesic dome, has been produced over 300,000 times worldwide, Fuller's true impact on the world today can be found in his continued influence upon generations of designers, architects, scientists and artists working to create a more sustainable planet. <br> "William Hugh Kenner was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. He published widely on Modernist literature with particular emphasis on James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Samuel Beckett. His major study of the period, The Pound Era (1971), argued for Pound as the central figure of Modernism, and is considered one of the most important works on the topic. He taught at University of California, Santa Barbara; the Johns Hopkins University; and the University of Georgia." - Poetry Foundation