Nevada Rock Art by Peter Goin

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Shaped by water, wind, geothermal activity, and human interaction since ancient times, the desolate, haunting landscape nonetheless teems with life in forms that have endured for millennia.

In a brilliant duet, a photographer and a geographer explore this eloquent, enigmatic landscape that has been the focus of study and contemplation by scientists, explorers, naturalists, overland sojourners, and artists.

Black Rock is available online from Museum of New Mexico Press or locally from  Black Rock Institute Press and select local retailers.

Wednesday, March 7, 3 – 5 p.m.

Nevada Today, Events @ Nevada. In conjunction with the current Special Collections exhibit Where the Sage Meets the Sky: Great Basin Landscapes, join us for a series of “Sagebrush Conversations” as local experts and authors discuss Nevada’s physical and cultural environment. Discussions on this date will be on ”Photographing and Mapping the Black Rock Desert” with Peter Goin, UNR Professor & Chair, Art Dept., and Paul Starrs, UNR Professor & Chair, Geography Dept.

Peter Goin and Paul Starrs co-authored Black Rock in 2005, each bringing to the volume their professional strengths.  Peter will discuss his photography for the book and Paul will cover the geography of this most historically important northern Nevada desert.

See the schedule and RSVP at http://knowledgecenter.unr.edu/materials/specoll/sage_meets_the_sky.aspx

This review is from: Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert (paperback). Mackedon is one of a growing number of Nevada poets, novelists, artists and scholars who are recording the nuclear history of the state and nation. Her approach is far-ranging and her book particularly accessible. It is filled with scholarship but is a popular rather than an academic book. An added advantage for busy people is that this book can easily be browsed; each chapter or section can stand alone, and many pages are illustrated with quotes, drawings or sidebars with interesting information. The 23 page full-color chapter on Atomic Pop draws on the extensive collection of artist Peter Goin who was also involved in the artistic design of the book. In short, this is a unique book that draws on Mackedon extensive research of government documents, her service as Vice-chair of the Nevada Nuclear Commission, her rhetorical skills as a Professor of English, and her personal perspectives as a Nevada native.

Golconda, Nevada

“Priscilla is best known as one of the three “doom town” tests, the other two being Annie and Apple II.  The primary objective of the Priscilla event was to correlate the yield of the device with its effects on military equipment, material, structures and ordnance.  Thirty four scientific projects were designed in service of the objective, including  the construction of a “doom town” with houses, motel-like structures, parking garages, and bomb shelters.  Manikins, anthropomorphic dummies and live animals served as surrogate humans positioned against the power of the 37 kt. Bomb.” 

Read more about Priscilla and “Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert” on Michon’s website and blog, visit:  http://www.spinningatoms.com/

Nevada Rock Art is a fine art limited edition book produced at the highest standards of offset printing, using state-of-the-art color presses. There are 1,000 limited edition copies, signed and numbered. The book includes essays by Peter Goin and Paul F. Starrs, as well as Angus Quinlan, Executive Director of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation; posthumously Alanah Woody; and Mark Boatwright, BLM archeologist. The book is 252 pages and contains 123 color plates. For more information and pictures visit our Nevada Rock Art page.

Author, Michon Mackedon, presenting her Award winning, new book Bombast:  Spinning Atoms in the Desert (2010) at the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno.

Bombast:  Spinning Atoms in the Desert is available online from Museum of New Mexico Press or locally from  Black Rock Institute Press and select local retailers.  Visit our Contact page for more information or to ask us a question.

Buy a copy today!  Available paper-bound or hard-bound.

Visit Michon’s website http://www.spinningatoms.com/

Sunday, December 11, noon to 5 pm

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