HUM2305 The Painted Desert – Flashcards
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Geraldine Brooks
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⁃Australian-American author ⁃Pulitzer prize winner for fiction
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The Great Sandy Desert
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⁃Climate: hot dry season; rainy season ⁃Aborigines forced off the land ⁃Mining ⁃Missile tests (1950s)
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Aborigines
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•Contemporary artists (Aborigines) ⁃Themes: lost land ⁃Origins of the movement
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Fitzroy Crossing
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- Fitzroy River ⁃Outposts for miners and graziers ⁃Rough and rowdy town ⁃More recently - contemporary artists
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Artistic revival
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⁃Up to $500,000 in sales ⁃Poverty still widespread ⁃Sale of Ngurrara 1 and Ngurrara 2
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Communal works in the sand
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⁃Rites for the "Creation ancestors" ⁃Obliterated after the ceremony
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Birth of modern aboriginal art (Papunya)
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⁃Assimilation and education ⁃Acrylic paint for schools ⁃Used by adults to paint ground paintings on canvas ⁃Permanent medium
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Rover Thomas
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⁃Spiritual calling to begin a new movement ⁃Success and reputation
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Ngurrara canvases
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⁃Opportunity to reclaim ancestral lands ⁃Need to show connection to the land ⁃Inability to express these connections orally ⁃"Geographical representations"
