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Book Synopsis Nevada's Black Rock Desert by : Sessions S. Wheeler
Download or read book Nevada's Black Rock Desert written by Sessions S. Wheeler and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1978-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Veteran author Session S. Wheeler and award winning artist Craig Sheppard have come together to give the reader a taste of the history, and stark beauty of one of Nevada's most unique geological, and environmental features.
Download or read book The Black Rock Desert written by and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 measurementÑmuch 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 silenceÑnot even birds or insects live hereÑexcept when thousands of humans congregate for the Burning Man Festival on Labor Day weekend. Writer and poet William Fox has demonstrated his familiarity with the Great Basin in such respected books as Mapping the Empty, just as Mark Klett has been documenting the landscape of the American West in his acclaimed photographic studies. Now these accomplished artists turn their combined talents to an appreciation of this desolate corner of North America, where the only change in scenery comes with the shifting pattern of cracks in the earth after seasonal rains. The Black Rock Desert is a philosophical and visual meditation on an extraordinary place virtually devoid of the usual physical features one relies on for orientation and comfort. It invites readers to consider how the mind responds to a place so empty that it's both physically overpowering and psychically disorienting. Klett's photographs are austere yet innovative, admitting the vastness of the desert yet never letting us forget that traces of human passage and perception are ubiquitous. Fox's contemplative essays bring us news of both the natural desert and its cultural occupation, from the explorations of John C. FrŽmont to the exaltations of Burning Man. Together, Fox and Klett have forged an introspective guide to a place so daunting that few dare to venture there alone. For anyone seeking to understand how and why we perceive deserts the way we do, their book charts the rugged intersection of the American landscape and the human spirit.
Download or read book Black Rock written by Peter Goin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant duet, a photographer and geographer explore this desert realm the size of Delaware, a desolate landscape that nonetheless teems with life-forms that have endured for millennia.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Burning Man by : Carolyn L. White
Download or read book The Archaeology of Burning Man written by Carolyn L. White and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for Burning Man, an event that creates the sixth-largest population center in Nevada. By mid-September the infrastructure that supported the community is fully dismantled, and by October the land on which the city lay is scrubbed of evidence of its existence. The Archaeology of Burning Man examines this process of building, occupation, and destruction. For nearly a decade Carolyn L. White has employed archaeological methods to analyze the various aspects of life and community in and around Burning Man and Black Rock City. With a syncretic approach, this work in active-site archaeology provides both a theoretical basis and a practical demonstration of the potential of this new field to reexamine the most fundamental conceptions in the social sciences.
Book Synopsis Burning Man in Black Rock Desert, Nevada by : Fred Rinne
Download or read book Burning Man in Black Rock Desert, Nevada written by Fred Rinne and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nevada Desert by : Sessions S. Wheeler
Download or read book The Nevada Desert written by Sessions S. Wheeler and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press As late as the end of the first quarter of the nineteenth century it was still a land of mystery-uncharted, unexplored. With the exception of the Arctic, it was a part of the only large area of the North American continent which the white man had not penetrated. It was the Nevada Desert. Sessions S. Wheeler gives us its story.
Download or read book Burning Book written by Jessica Bruder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Bruderis a reporter for theOregonian.Her writing has also appeared in theNew York Times,theWashington Post,and theNew York Observer.She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Download or read book Compass of the Ephemeral written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevada artist and Burning Man event co-founder Will Roger photographs the ever changing cityscape and transformation of Black Rock City as it changed throughout the years. The book contains a substantial collection of aerial photos as never seen before. A photographic collaboration between Will Roger and Burning Man architect Rod Garrett, Introduction by Burning Man co-founder Harley Dubois. Contributions from Independent scholar William Fox and Archaeologist Alexei Vranich, Available in hardback format, 216 pages.
Book Synopsis Black Rock Desert by : Christopher Brooks
Download or read book Black Rock Desert written by Christopher Brooks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Rock Desert, located in northwestern Nevada, has been the site of many human activities, from ancient hunters to the arrival of the pioneers to present-day motion pictures, land-speed records, commercial photography, and a weeklong art festival. This book focuses on the art history of the Black Rock Desert playa up until 1990, laying the groundwork for the larger, participatory art events of recent history. Events include art from the Lassen Trail; The Winning of Barbara Worth, starring Gary Cooper, in 1926; and a wild horse roundup as documented by Gus Bundy. Also included are recent works of art such as Doobie Lane and a croquet match in which trucks were used as mallets. Historical images feature the towns of Sulphur and Gerlach, nearby ranches, and the Empire gypsum mine.
Book Synopsis Mineral Resources of the Black Rock Desert Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County, Nevada by :
Download or read book Mineral Resources of the Black Rock Desert Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County, Nevada written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Enabling Creative Chaos by : Katherine K. Chen
Download or read book Enabling Creative Chaos written by Katherine K. Chen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2008, nearly fifty thousand people traveled to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to participate in the countercultural arts event Burning Man. Founded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival presents unique challenges to its organizers. Over four years Katherine K. Chen regularly participated in organizing efforts to safely and successfully create a temporary community in the middle of the desert under the hot August sun. Enabling Creative Chaos tracks how a small, underfunded group of organizers transformed into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers. Over the years, Burning Man’s organizers have experimented with different management models; learned how to recruit, motivate, and retain volunteers; and developed strategies to handle regulatory agencies and respond to media coverage. This remarkable evolution, Chen reveals, offers important lessons for managers in any organization, particularly in uncertain times.
Book Synopsis NK Guy. Art of Burning Man by : NK Guy
Download or read book NK Guy. Art of Burning Man written by NK Guy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One brief week each summer, Black Rock City becomes a temporary community, spiritual adventure, desert rave, social experiment, and home to some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made. For 16 years, writer and photographer NK Guy has traveled deep into the Nevada desert to photograph the installations, happenings, and...
Download or read book Burning Man written by Jennifer Raiser and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authorized collection of more than two hundred color photos showcases the sculptures, art, stories, and interviews from the annual celebration of artistic expression in Nevada's barren Black Rock Desert
Download or read book Desert to Dream written by Barbara Traub and published by Immedium. This book was released on 2011 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a photographic record of the annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada, from its beginning as a performance art exhibit to its current status as a pop culture destination.
Book Synopsis The Black Rock Desert by : Sessions S. Wheeler
Download or read book The Black Rock Desert written by Sessions S. Wheeler and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Veteran author Session S. Wheeler and award winning artist Craig Sheppard have come together to give the reader a taste of the history, and stark beauty of one of Nevada's most unique geological, and environmental features.
Book Synopsis Geothermal Resources of the Western Arm of the Black Rock Desert, Northwestern Nevada by : Alan H. Welch
Download or read book Geothermal Resources of the Western Arm of the Black Rock Desert, Northwestern Nevada written by Alan H. Welch and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gerlach written by Richard Phillips Neely and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boyhood tale of growing up in an isolated, unbridled town of the Wild West. Five bars, a whorehouse, population 150. An out of control schoolhouse. Life on the trail of a cattle drive. A terrible secret, two great tragedies. Ultimately, a story about the hero who resides in ordinary people.
