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Author Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen, Aliya, author.

Title Central Asia in art : from Soviet orientalism to the new republics / Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen.

Publication Info. London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 289 pages) : color illustrations, color map
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-286) and index.
Contents Introduction: Soviet orientalism -- the untold story -- The politics of multinationalism: messages from the centre -- Soviet totalitarianism: the visual experiment -- Teaching to see: bringing art tot he republics -- Learning to be: the natives learn to paint, or the arrival of Soviet identities -- De-Stalinisation and beyond: Stalin to Borat.
Summary Presenting the 'untold story' of Soviet Orientalism, this book re-evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet state, placing the Orientalist undercurrent found within art and propaganda production in the USSR alongside the creation of new art forms in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
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Subject Art -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union.
Art -- Political aspects.
Soviet Union.
Orientalism in art.
Orientalism in art.
Painting, Russian -- 20th century.
Painting, Russian.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Asia, Central -- In art.
Central Asia.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Art.
ISBN 9781838608132 (electronic book)
1838608133 (electronic book)
9781838608125 (electronic book)
1838608125 (electronic book)
9781784533526 (hardback)
1784533521 (hardback)