Burn this, baby

Name the artist:

> he literally walked off the bandstand and moved to Mexico. The New York
> Times expressed admiration for "the Shakespearean sweep of his exodus"
> and the "beautiful incautious burning of all his bridges behind him."

Interestingly, a Google search for beautiful incautious burning returns the history of burning man as its #7 find, while a search of beautiful-incautious-burning returns nothing at all. As of this writing, a Google News search does find the answer.