ISBN：9783836550079

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内容简介
   “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. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10,000 years. Except, that is, for one brief week at the end of each summer, when a temporary city rises out of the barren clay.
This is the surreal and amazing site of Burning Man. Baked by the sun, and blinded by dust, the gathering acquires different meanings for different people: Temporary community, spiritual adventure, performance stage, desert rave, social experiment. It’s also the incubator of some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made: a mechanized fire-breathing octopus, a towering wooden temple 15 meters tall, and the eponymous Man himself—a skeletal sculpture set ablaze at the event’s conclusion.

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Here, writer and photographer NK Guy presents 16 years of Burning Man art. His dazzling images record these participatory, collective, intrinsically ephemeral installations and happenings in the desert, which exist for no clearer purpose than because someone wanted to express something. The result is testimony to a realm far beyond the ego, commerce, and power play of mainstream cultural output: It is one of the most pure, uninhibited, expressive centers of our time.
With a foreword by temple designer and artist David Best and a futureword by Founding Board Member Marian Goodell.
离赌博城镇里诺100英里，在内达华州北部的旷野上，绵延着一片被称作黑岩沙漠的广阔且充满敌意的平原。该地区一直都是空无一人，海风吹拂着1万年前便已经干涸的湖床。然而，在每个夏季即将结束的最后一个周，这片贫瘠的土地上就会升起一座临时城市。
这便是令人惊奇的超现实主义网站“火人艺术”。被太阳烤，被灰尘覆盖，采取不同人的不同意见：临时社区，精神冒险，表演舞台，沙漠狂欢，社会实验等等。这也是有史以来最具有特色的户外艺术：机械化喷火的章鱼，高达15米的木质寺庙等。
在本书中，作家兼摄影师NK·盖伊呈现16年的火人艺术。他令人眼花缭乱的图像记录这些集体参与、本质短暂的沙漠中的艺术行为。

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