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NK Guy. Art of Burning Man (Hardcover)
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NK Guy. Art of Burning Man (Hardcover)
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One hundred miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness
of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black
Rock Desert. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake
bed for most of the past 10,000 years. Except, that is, for one
brief week at the end of each summer, when a temporary city rises
out of the barren clay. This is the surreal and amazing site of
Burning Man. Baked by the sun, and blinded by dust, the gathering
acquires different meanings for different people: temporary
community, spiritual adventure, performance stage, desert rave,
social experiment. It's also the incubator of some of the most
remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made: a mechanized
fire-breathing octopus, a towering wooden temple 15 meters tall,
and the eponymous Man himself-a skeletal sculpture set ablaze at
the event's conclusion. In this updated edition with fresh images,
writer and photographer NK Guy presents 16 years of Burning Man
art. His dazzling images record these participatory, collective,
intrinsically ephemeral installations and happenings in the desert,
which exist for no clearer purpose than because someone wanted to
express something. The result is testimony to a realm far beyond
the ego, commerce, and power play of mainstream cultural output: it
is one of the most pure, uninhibited, expressive centers of our
time. With a foreword by temple designer and artist David Best and
a futureword by Founding Board Member Marian Goodell.
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