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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Aliya (Independent Scholar) De Tiesenhausen
• Con la collaborazione di: Aliya de Tiesenhausen (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032195858
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3219585-8
• Pagine: 136
• Serie: Central Asian Studies
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; 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