Central Asia in Art: From Soviet Orientalism to the New Republics by Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen Laurie Essig Holding together the complex coalition

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The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history

Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey have spent years traveling through and studying this important yet forgotten region

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Central Asia in Art: From Soviet Orientalism to the New Republics by Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen Laurie Essig Holding together the complex coalitionIn 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