SNELSON, Kenneth

If some visual art students at Black Mountain College took from Albers, and others learned from De Kooning, Snelson followed yet another teacher who has passed through its western North Carolina campus, Buckminster Fuller , who gave him the concept of tensegrity. Snelson's most familiar sculptures are polished aluminum tubes suspended in space by taut steel cables, so that if the viewer moves sufficiently far away, the cable disappears from the unaided eye, leaving the illusion of shiny...