Open AccessThe Code of the Desert
Author(s) -
G. R. Nicholson
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
boom
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2153-764X
pISSN - 2153-8018
DOI - 10.1525/boom.2016.6.1.108
Subject(s) - desert (philosophy) , ambivalence , architecture , code (set theory) , art , visual arts , art history , history , archaeology , geography , psychology , computer science , psychoanalysis , law , political science , set (abstract data type) , programming language
A personal essay about visiting and living in the California desert, the architecture and art created there, and what does and doesn’t “belong” there. There are considerations of homesteader cabins, motels, “villains’ houses” and the author’s own ambivalent urges to own a piece of the desert, with references to Ed Ruscha, Rayner Banham and Noah Purifoy.
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