Uzbekistan: Avant-Garde Orientalists

Download or read book Uzbekistan: Avant-Garde Orientalists written by Yaffa Assouline and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Collector, Igor Vitalyevich Savitsky dedicated his life to saving one of the world’s most important works of Russian avant-garde art, which would have been otherwise destined to disappear forever. His efforts allowed artists, obscured by Stalin’s regime, to be rediscovered. Today, the Karakalpakstan State Museum of Art named after I.V. Savitsky in Nukus, and located in the middle of a vast desert on the northwest end of Uzbekistan-once called “the Louvre of the Steppes-now holds one of the largest collections of this art, second only to the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.