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Author : Sessions S. Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Black Rock Desert (Nev.)
ISBN : OCLC:54539050
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0816521727
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.
Author : Carolyn L. White
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826361349
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.
Author : Sessions S. Wheeler
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1978-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0870045393
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.
Author : Peter Goin,Paul F. Starrs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Black Rock Desert (Nev.)
ISBN : 0984101403
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.
Author : Sessions S. Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Black Rock Desert (Nev.)
ISBN : OCLC:1254064950
Author : Peter Goin,Paul F. Starrs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Black Rock Desert (Nev.)
ISBN : 0874175917
"Nevada's enigmatic Black Rock country, despite its apparent silence and isolation, is actually an area where natural forces are ceaselessly restless and life in many forms has endured for millennia. Its haunting landscape has been the focus of study and contemplation by scientists, explorers, outdoors aficionados, and artists. In black rock, photographer Peter Goin and geographer Paul F. Starrs explore this place from the viewpoints of their respective disciplines." "The Black Rock, a desert realm almost the size of Delaware but scarcely a hundred miles north of Reno, embraces mile-high vertical mountains and one of the earth's flattest, most barren salt pans; boiling hot springs and freezing winter cold; plants that have evolved to survive the severest drought and lush pockets of rich grasses. Its bewildering environments startle our senses with a raw physical intensity that comes through in Goin's photographs and Starrs's informed text. We observe the region from numerous perspectives - the Black Rock at ground level, from the skies above, in the geology below; witness the shaping roles of water, wind, and geothermal action in shaping it; and view the effects of human hands, from ancient Native Americans to nineteenth century explorers, ranchers, and miners, up through the congregants at today's Burning Man festivals. The result is a duet of visual and literary commentary on a region of stunning paradoxes and constant change and activity, where need and curiosity encounter the daunting, implacable forces of nature."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Alan H. Welch,Alan M. Preissler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Geothermal resources
ISBN : UCR:31210025004340
Author : Alan H. Welch,Alan M. Preissler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Geothermal resources
ISBN : UOM:39015037732529
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Black Rock Desert (Nev.)
ISBN : 0977880656
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.
Author : Christopher Brooks
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467130202
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.
Author : Sessions S. Wheeler
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : 087004205X
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Black Rock Desert Wilderness (Nev.)
ISBN : OSU:32435022085039
Author : Katherine K. Chen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226102399
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.
Author : Barbara Traub
Publisher : Immedium
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781597020268
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.