‘사비츠키 국립미술관’에 관한 소고: 러시아 문화와 우즈베키스탄 문화 사이에서

Abstract

This paper attempts to understand the ‘myth’ of Savitsky’s art museum as known as a ‘Louvre of the desert,’ ‘Hermitage of the desert.’ Opened in 1966, the museum houses a collection of over 90,000 items, ranging from antiquities of Khorezm ancient civilization to Karakalpak folk art, and expecially, Russian and Turkestan avant-garde works. Nukus, where the museum is located, is a secluded city near the shrinking Aral Sea. This museum has the world’s second largest collection of Russian avant-garde art which had been banned by Stalin in the 1930s. Its founder, I.V. Savitsky, a Russian born in Kiev and educated in Moscow, settled in Nukus in 1950s and collected the works of avant-garde artists linked to Central Asia intensively in the 1960s and 1970s. He risked everything for this