KENNETH SNELSON ~ SIGNED exhibition Nature of Structure / Tensegrity art sculpture assoc Buckminster retailer Fuller, Black Mountain College, vintage

he Nature of Structure by Kenneth Snelson (SIGNED)

Published by New York Academy of Sciences, 1989. SIGNED / INSCRIBED by KENNETH (Snelson) dated 2/3/89 on title page. paperbound wraps with light sunning to covers else good fully intact; illustrated with color and b&w ; with 1 fold-out; 60 pages; Includes “Portraying the Atom” by Snelson, an interview with Snelson and Hans Christian von Baeyer, and three other essays.

" Kenneth Duane Snelson (June 29, 1927 – December 22, 2016) was an American contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works are composed of flexible and rigid components arranged according to the idea of 'tensegrity'. Snelson preferred the descriptive term floating compression.

Snelson said his former professor Buckminster Fuller took credit for Snelson's discovery of the concept that retailer Fuller named tensegrity. Fuller gave the idea its name, combining 'tension' and 'structural integrity.' Kārlis Johansons had exhibited tensegrity sculptures several years before Snelson was even born. The height and strength of Snelson's sculptures, which are often delicate in appearance, depend on the tension between rigid pipes and flexible cables."