For most of us, Central Asia is a region of the globe that is not necessarily top of mind. But for Kaven Baker-Voakes, it was the place that he focused on when doing his masters at Carleton’s Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Baker-Voakes recently graduated with an MA after completing his thesis in which he chronicled the evolution of USSR cultural policy on paintings in Uzbekistan primarily from 1930 to1960. It is the first major post-Soviet study to consider the impact of Soviet cultural policies upon Uzbek painting’s direction and imagery during the height of socialist realism.
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