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Revel in the power of human creativity with this completely revised and expanded edition of Burning Man: Art on Fire, illustrated with over 250 gorgeous color photos. For one week a year, a remote desert lakebed in Nevada becomes Black Rock City, the home of Burning Man, where 80,000 participants create a temporary community devoted to expression and play. There is no money, no running water—and there are no constraints. Artists bring enormous...

"It is the only absolute desert in North America, a four-hundred-square-mile dry lake bed so desolate that nothing ever grows there. Vast and featureless, Nevada's Black Rock Desert defies visual measurement - much to the consternation of off-roaders who venture out onto this playa only to run out of gas before reaching the other side. It is the largest flat area on the continent, where the sound barrier was broken in a car. And it is a place of total...

In search of ritual: the burning man: Part art project and part primitive ritual, The Burning man, an event held annually in the Black Rock Desert, is documented in this segment. -- "The Reno cure" is a look at the divorce industry in Reno, from it's beginning at the turn of the century, through it's heyday in the 1930's to the present. -- "Last flight of the Sky Crane" is a look at the history of the military helicopter, know[n] as the Sky Crane...

"From vast mechanical creatures to mind-blowing pyrotechnics, the Burning Man Festival is the incubator of some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made. With photography from NK Guy, this book documents 16 years of the festival's installations and happenings as models of participatory, collective, and uninhibited expression"--Back cover.

"Hosts Dave Santina and Chris Orr explore some of the lakes of northern Nevada. They visit the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Reservation while touring Pyramid Lake. They then explore one of the largest dry lakebeds in the United States, the playa of the Black Rock Desert"--Container label.