Social Role of Art and Culture in Central Asia

This collection of multi-disciplinary essays offers a fresh, perspective on Central Asian art and culture as it gains increased attention on both the local and international stage.

List of contents

1. Introduction: art and culture - actors or representatives? 2. Nation, religion and social heat: heritaging Uyghur mäshräp in Kazakhstan 3. The art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or how to make a portrait from a skull 4. Soviet architecture, Kazakh nationalist sentiments and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan, 1925-33: the cases of Kyzylorda and the House of Government of the Kazakh ASSR in Almaty 5. From Sufism to communism: incarnations of the Uyghur song 'Imam Hüsäynim' 6. Contesting convention: agency in Dushanbe's contemporary art scene 7. Queer identity in the contemporary art of Kazakhstan

About the author

Aliya de Tiesenhausen is an independent scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first century Central Asian art. She co-curated Focus Kazakhstan: Post-Nomadic Mind, London, 2018 - the first major exhibition of modern and contemporary art from the country in the UK. She is the author of Central Asia in Art: From Soviet Orientalism to the New Republics, 2016.

Summary

This collection of multi-disciplinary essays offers a fresh, perspective on Central Asian art and culture as it gains increased attention on both the local and international stage.

Product details

• Authors: Aliya (Independent Scholar) De Tiesenhausen
• Assisted by: Aliya de Tiesenhausen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032195858
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3219585-8
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Central Asian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, ART / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, ART / Asian / General, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Central Asia, The arts: general topics, ART / Russian & Soviet