The Social Role of Art and Culture in Central Asia

Herausgeber: de Tiesenhausen, Aliya

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Central Asian Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781032195858
• ISBN-10: 1032195851
• Artikelnr.: 69791833

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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