Central Asia in Art: From Soviet Orientalism to the New Republics

by Tiesenhause Abyayeva and Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen

In the midst of the space race and nuclear age, Soviet Realist artists were producing figurative oil paintings. Why? How was art produced to control and co-opt the peripheries of the Soviet Union, particularly Central Asia? Presenting the 'untold story' of Soviet Orientalism, Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen re-evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet state, placing the Orientalist undercurrent found within art and propaganda production in the USSR...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784533521
• ISBN13: 9781784533526
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.7" x 9.9"