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Burning Man: Art in the Desert Hardcover – June 1, 2007

by A. Leo Nash (Author), Daniel Pinchbeck (Introduction)

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For one week in August the Burning Man Festival in Nevadas Black Rock Desert brings people together in a spirit of self-reliance and creativity. Art has become the defining feature of Burning Man, as the festival continues to be a testing ground for a growing circle of artists seeking engaged audiences. Their most compelling works are large-scale constructions that are burned at the end of the festival, and radically altered vehicles, or art cars.

Art at Burning Man, like the experience of being there itself, is a way of being outside routine existence: People return home rejuvenated and inspired to seek ways to express the spirit of the festival in their everyday lives. For more than a decade, A. Leo Nash has been creating a photographic document of this work, and in his photographs we see the wellspring of a new art movement.

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160 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Publication date

June 1, 2007
Grade level

8 and up
Reading age

13 years and up
Dimensions

8.5 x 1 x 12 inches
ISBN-10

0810992906
ISBN-13

978-0810992900
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Nash's understated black and white photography gives an unexpected and intimate glimpse into Burning Man, the art-centric festival-community ("essentially a temporary city... of up to forty-thousand people") erected on an isolated stretch of Nevada desert every fall. Though it's known as much for hedonistic carousing as for art (if not moreso), Nash has been sleeping through the all-night parties for more than a decade so he can rise early and shoot artwork in the desert's morning light. More than a hundred of his stripped-down images are collected here, a strange and beautiful catalog of the structures, vehicles, monuments and performances dreamed up in the middle of nowhere. Writer and psychonaut Daniel Pinchbeck provides a brief introduction, but Nash's images are better complemented by his own plainspoken commentary, which focuses on the hard realities of putting on an event of Burning Man's magnitude: hazardous road trips, labor-intensive construction, infrastructure management, crowd control and the final clean up. Nash's singular, idiosyncratic perspective proves charming and frank; for instance, Nash isn't shy about tensions within the community (mainly between those who come early to build and latecomers who take the effort for granted). It's easy to imagine a lively collaborative volume on the festival, but by keeping things restrained, Nash provides a personal tour that gets to the heart of the spectacle.
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About the Author

A. Leo Nash is a photographer whose work has been widely exhibited. He is a creative participant at Burning Man and collaborates with the artists whose work he documents. He lives in Oakland, California.

Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. He lives in New York City.

Product details

Publisher : Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Slp edition (June 1, 2007)
Language : English
Hardcover : 160 pages
ISBN-10 : 0810992906
ISBN-13 : 978-0810992900
Reading age : 13 years and up
Grade level : 8 and up
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 8.5 x 1 x 12 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,015,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #191 in General California Travel Guides
- #737 in Conceptual Arts (Books)
- #2,210 in Photography Collections & Exhibitions (Books)

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Kiki

All Burners Should Buy This Book!

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2019

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If you love Burning Man, you will LOVE this book! So many amazing photographs from the beginning of BM. Makes an excellent gift for the Burner in your life! The book looks really great up on an easel. Highly recommend.

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Tommy

Great read

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2017

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Great read
Like you were There!!

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John Thompson

Burning Man photos are great!

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2019

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Great photos! I loved the ‘Kong’s Last Ride’

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Mary

good photos deep in drivel

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2007

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I bought the book because I like black and white photos and because my son has attended Burning Man and worked for the corporation that creates the event in 2003. My intention is to give him the book; but, I decided to read the text before sending it off. The intro is long winded drivel (and at the time of this writing, the writer of the introduction has wasted valuable real estate on this product page with some self serving crap from his blog; who wants to wade down the page to get to the real reviews?) and the text by the photog is self indulgent in the style of the "burners." The notion that this event is somehow "spontaneous" is what really makes me laugh. A more apt description would be something on the order of "this is my personal journal and musings on this ongoing "spontaneous" event, plus some photos" The pictures are well made, and the presentation with a slipcover is nicely done, which is what rescues the book.

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The Inconstancy of Art

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2010

For those unfamiliar with BURNING MAN, the promotional material for this annual unique art event is described here: 'Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever. ' Or in other places 'Art at Burning Man, like the experience of being there itself, is a way of being outside routine existence: People return home rejuvenated and inspired to seek ways to express the spirit of the festival in their everyday lives.' And as Wikipedia expands 'The event starts on the Monday before and ends on the day of the American Labor Day holiday. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening. The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance.' BURNING MAN: ART IN THE DESERT is as fine a documentation of this phenomenon as is available. The author is a photographer A. Leo Nash who with his funky photographic kinks has captured thirteen years of this week of art in the desert, and the results are exciting and rewarding.

This well designed and produced book offers insights into this ritual. The art created for this event varies from construction of found objects to three-dimensional sculptures brought or transported to the site for the fellow artists (and growing public of art lovers) to 'experience'. There is something about the light of the desert that transforms this work, making the whole seem more important than its component parts. And much of that art is due to Nash's experimental photography that has become very much a part of this episodic, temporary contemporary art exhibition/happening. Reading or viewing this beautifully slipcovered memento will likely result in an increased audience for this very fresh and invigorating art. Some of the works in the BURNING MAN have included the 1908 "The End" by Bob Marzewski, a very impressive huge sculpture of stacked blocks that spell out THE END. But the variety of what is here in this book will definitely entertain the reader and give further credence to the idea that great art can be of the moment, then dismantled and moved on. BURNING MAN says more about our current way of experiencing life than perhaps the artists and even A. Leo Nash expected. It is well worth the attention of everyone who craves creativity, even transient creative works. Grady Harp, February 10

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Nesdon

Its the art, stupid

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2008

So much of the photogprahy of Burning Man is all glitz and surreal glamour, with a big measure of breast often thrown in. Yeah it's a big party with all sorts of wacky and interesting costumes and bright sights, but the real soul of the thing is the making of the art.

Public art is always a gift to its community. The type of art that has grown out there, especially in its scale and ambition, often demands substantial gifts from the community to exist. It is a sublime and outrageous feedback loop, the process and product of which have never been as clearly and deeply represented as in this luminous book.

The inner cover photo of a box of matches full of dust and containing not only matches but burnt stubs, cotter pins and a spring, is one of the most complete and lovely images of the spirit of these brave artists I have ever seen. If you can understand that photo you can probably understand the process of making art out there.

Leo Nash certainly does understand the process. By far the most revealing collection of Burning Man photos ever compiled, as close to a portait of the thing as you are likely to see.

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C. Moore

An extraordinary view of an indescribable place

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2007

Nash is a great photographer, with a clear, timeless vision that you can literally feel. His photographs hold you and keep you looking into them, farther. This is another volume in the work of our best contemporary photographers, and an extraordinary record of art and a place we might never have otherwise seen.

Burning Man is often described as being indescribable, and for good reason. So much of the art created there is ephemeral, lasting just a few days before burning to the ground. An entire city of 30,000 rises, falls, and disappears. To some, it feels like a heartbeat, and to others, a lifetime. To describe it in words is nearly impossible, when so much quickly becomes the elusive memory of memories.

Through Nash's remarkable photographs, we see a decade of visionary work and creativity that physically existed for only a moment. Whether you've been to Burning Man or not, this book will fill you with awe, and longing for the place.

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Arthur B

It sort of works...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2018

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For an event that is so obviously colourful, black & white photographs seemed, at first, a strange choice - but somehow it sort of works...

Lauren McCartney

Beautiful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2012

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Bought this as a Christmas present for my Burner Uncle, and it bought tears to his eyes.
Beautifully presented and a great present for any Burner or fan of photography.

M Chaikin

very good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2015

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lovely book. Fab pics about "Burning Man"

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