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Abstract
The article explores the question of ethnic identity, using the case of the 1990s Kalmyk association of artists “Dzhungaria” [also Jangaria or Zungharia]. It then analyzes the significance of folklore in Kalmyk artistic and cultural revival, with focus on the painter Garri Rokchinskii and his cycle based on the Jangar heroic epic. The authors conclude that recent Kalmyk art, reflecting historical memories of Mongol and Oirat ancestry, derives from and shapes ethnic self-awareness.
Notes
English translation © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text “Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo i obrazov Eposov Kalmykii v svete etnicheskoi identichnosti tvorcheskoi lichnosti.” Published with the author's permission.K.P. (Kermen) Batyreva, candidate of philosophical sciences, is an instructor at the Institute of Kalmyk Philology and Oriental Studies of Kalmyk State University. Email: [email protected]. Svetlana Garrievna Batyreva, doctor of art studies, is leading researcher at Zaya-pandita's Museum of Kalmyk Traditional Culture of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences (Elista). Email: [email protected] by Stephan Lang. Color versions of one or more of the figures in the article can be found online at www.tandfonline.com/maae