Getting Bucky Fuller Right: Loretta Lorance, Becoming Bucky Fuller

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) is receiving belated scrutiny in major exhibitions and in scholarly books. Loretta Lorance's Becoming Bucky Fuller (2009) is a highly original, often fascinating investigation of how Fuller laid the groundwork for his later fame and fortune after a series of early setbacks. More thoroughly than any prior scholar, Lorance uncovers crucial differences between Fuller's and his admirers' portraits of his younger days as the alleged victim of both personal and professional setbacks and what actually happened. It is now evident that Fuller's greatest invention was himself.