Every August, tens of thousands of participants gather to celebrate artistic expression and social freedom in Nevada's barren Black Rock Desert. This vastly inhospitable location, called the playa, is the site of Burning Man, where, within a 9-mile fence, artists called Burners create a temporary city devoted to art and participation. Braving extreme elements, over two hundred wildly ambitious works of art are created and intended to delight, provoke, involve, or amaze. The best of those creations have never been collected into a single book…until now.

BURNING MAN: Art of Fire [Race Point Publishing, September 2014, $35.00 US / $39.00 CAN] by Jennifer Raiser with photography by Scott London and Sidney Erthal is the only authorized collection of the best of Burning Man art with incredible photography that captures the very essence of the sculptures, art, stories, and interviews from the world's largest and most beloved celebration of artistic expression.

In 2013, over 68,000 people attended - the highest number ever allowed on the “playa” (the name for the massive village that is built, lived upon, and then demolished one week in September every year). As Burning Man has grown and created context, new categories of art have emerged including “Art to Ride,” “Collaborative Art,” and of course “Art to Burn.”

This book allows readers to experience the amazing sculptures, art, stories, and interviews with the artists that reveal not only their motivation to create art specifically for Burning Man, but also illuminates the dramatic efforts it took to create their pieces.  

In BURNING MAN: Art of Fire readers will immerse themselves the world's greatest gathering of artists with more than 200 photos of the best examples of playa art. With an introduction by Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, and a foreword from Will Chase, this stunning book will enable Burners and enthusiasts alike to hold a piece of Burning Man with them all year long.