| ID | 177710 |
| Title Proper | Art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or how to make a portrait from a skull |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Bonin, Christianna |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The artists of the Sixtiers generation in Soviet Kazakhstan have typically been understood as the creators of an authentic Kazakh style. This article demonstrates that a web of constructed vectors helped consolidate art as ‘Kazakh’ in the 1960s and early 1970s. I argue that the Sixtiers mined the history of nomadic populations in Central Asia for site-specific cultural forms as a means to connect with an expanding art world and the global context of decolonialization. Neither wholly official nor countercultural, the Sixtiers produced a cultural milieu that stretched the limits of the sayable in late Soviet socialism and defined the margins of modernity with which Kazakh artists continue to contend. |
| `In' analytical Note | Central Asian Survey Vol. 40, No.1; Mar 2021: p.34-56 |
| Journal Source | Central Asian Survey Vol: 40 No 1 |
| Key Words | Central Asia ; ART ; Soviet ; Kazakh ; Global ; Nomad |