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The art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or how to make a portrait from a skull

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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.

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  • Christianna Bonin, 2021. "The art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or how to make a portrait from a skull," Central Asian Survey, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(1), pages 34-56, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ccasxx:v:40:y:2021:i:1:p:34-56
    DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2020.1863912
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