THE ART DISCOURSE OF KAZAKH INTELLIGENTSIAIN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20thCENTURY:UTOPIAN NARRATIVES

2025

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DOI 10.65199/2617-6823-2025-1-1
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Abstract

Utopia represents a socio-cultural paradigm of an idealized human state. The art discourse of the Kazakh intelligentsia in the first half of the 20th century contains utopian narratives within the boundaries of Kazakh worldview through the optics of historical retrospection.This is due to, during the Soviet period, utopian experiments were conducted that did not yield positive arsenals or effects, due to the lack of spiritual and creative efforts applied. The very idea and theory were chosen in such a way that it was necessary to achieve a bright paradise on earth, but as history has shown, practice turned out to be even worse. The enormous mechanism did not take into account the centuries-old culture of the Kazakh people, their worldview, the philosophy of the steppe, and the nature of their perspective.It is widely recognized that, this work draws attention to the ideal through the optics of utopian narratives, as faith, dream, and hope in acquiring a free, spiritual society and personality. In the conditions of the first half of the 20th century, society needed to acquire an ideal. Such was the system of views, ideology, and values that guided the state.