Quraq in the Contemporary Art of Central Asia: Symbolic Language and Artistic Text
Journal: Central Asian Journal of Art Studies
Year: 2023

A piece of fabric and products, made from it, are called quraq by the Kazakhs, in the past and now it occupy a special place in the cultural practice of the peoples of Central Asia; and today its renaissance is taking place in modern art both as an image itself and as an artistic device. This is due to its wide expressive technical and artistic, semantic and communicative capabilities. In general, authors of the article understand the term of quraq as the traditional patchwork technique as such