1st Edition
The Social Role of Art and Culture in Central Asia
1. Introduction: art and culture – actors or representatives?
Aliya de Tiesenhausen
2. Nation, religion and social heat: heritaging Uyghur mäshräp in Kazakhstan
Rachel Harris and Ablet Kamalov
3. The art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or how to make a portrait from a skull
Christianna Bonin
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
Basan Kuberlinov
5. From Sufism to communism: incarnations of the Uyghur song ‘Imam Hüsäynim’
Mu Qian
6. Contesting convention: agency in Dushanbe’s contemporary art scene
Kasia Ploskonka
7. Queer identity in the contemporary art of Kazakhstan
Saltanat Shoshanova
Biography
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.
