Good Life The Painted Desert Answers – Flashcards

-Author of the painted desert -Australian-American author won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction

-sparsely inhabited desert region in the north part of Australia -has a hot and dry season where temps skyrocket during the day and plummet during the night. -the native people of the desert were moved and the government tried to pass a grant to get some kind of economy going for the displaced society

-located in the Great Sandy Desert and it's on the Fitzroy river where the water is shallow enough to be crossed -became an outpost for miners and grazers, and developed into a rough and rowdy town. -it is now a thriving artistic hub where contemporary artists call home -these contemporary artists were the aborigines who created art focused on their lost land -art is a way to both reflect on what they lost and a way to hang on to their culture

-sparked a great artistic revival in a place called Turkey Creek -said he had a spiritual calling to begin a new movement , and set out to do so. -set his art for display and sold his paintings for a lot of money -one of his paintings was sold for $778,500

-offered a unique opportunity out of this poverty and a new way of life -served as an opportunity to reclaim ancestral lands through the legal systems. -the aboriginees conveyed their argument to regain their land through art because they were not skilled in the rhetoric -these paintings were inaccurate geographic representations of their land -painting showed how important the land was to them and -sold Ngurrara 1 for $213,000 but they really wanted their land -displayed Ngurrar 2 to gain media attention which helped capitilize this moment of victory -the original artist didn't know how to care/preserve it so they walked over the giant canvas with bare feet and allowed the art to be physically incorporated into their senses.