It's also the incubator of some of the most pure site-specific outdoor art ever made. Baked by the sun, and blinded by dust, the event acquires different meanings for different people: temporary community, spiritual adventure, performance stage, desert rave, social experiment. This is the Burning Man festival, one of the most remarkable gatherings on the planet. Except, that is, for one brief week at the end of the summer, when a temporary city rises out of the barren clay. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10,000 years. Pyrotechnics and pure self-expression in the parched Black Rock Desert "You voluntarily assume the risk of serious injury or death by attending" 100 miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black Rock Desert. Download Art of Burning Man Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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