… or the “Louvre of the steppes,” which is located in the “Soviet Polynesia”. Correspondingly, in these popular tropes, … as a “Central Asian Paul Gauguin,” “Uzbek Tretyakov,” and “Soviet Schindler of the avant-garde.” These tropes strike one … which combined Karakalpak authentic “primitive” art with Soviet avant-garde paintings, as well as popular crafts with …