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

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Acknowledgements
Preface
Map of Central Asia
Introduction: Soviet Orientalism - The Untold Story
	Post-Soviet Art History and Theoretical Polemics
	Post-Soviet Art History and Material Images
	Postcolonialism in the Age of Petroleum
	Central Asia: Nationalism and Nation-Building
	Literature
	Personal Influences
1. The Politics of Multinationalism: Messages from the Centre
	The Union of Nations
	Nationality Policy
	The Great Russian People
	The Imperial Project and Soviet Art
	Russification
	Transformations
	Moscow and Muscovites
	Metro
	The War
2. Soviet Totalitarianism: The Visual Experiment
	Invented Doctrine and Exploitation of Visual Imagery
	Art Trapped within Gesamtkunstwerk
	Ideal Humans in the Multinational Context of the USSR
3. Teaching to See: Bringing Art to the Republics
	Central Asia and the Great Russian Brother
	Exploitation, Labour and Industry
	Semion Chuikov: Daughters of Soviet Kyrgyzia (or Lolitas of the Soviet East)
	Soviet Orientalism? Or Orientalism as Alternative?
	Pavel Benkov: Soviet Impressionism
	Alexander Volkov: Alternative East or Late Modernism
	Museumification of National Identity
4. Learning to be: The Natives Learn to paint, or the arrival of soviet identities
	National versus Soviet: from History to Everyday Life
	The Challenge to Tradition: the Patriarchal family versus the Soviet Friend
	Literacy, Language and Education
	Land, Agricultural Production and Nostalgia
	Abylkhan Kasteev: Primitive and National
	Ural Tansykbaev: Avant-garde Road to Socialist Realist Dream
5. De- Stalinisation and Beyond: Stalin to Borat
	After Stalin?
	From Kasteev to Meldibekov
	Central Asia, Soviet Art, Orientalism: Discourses and Images
Notes
Bibliographical References
Index