'Tashkent: A Modernist Capital'

Uzbekistan's capital city is revealed as a rare modernist jewel in this striking volume by Rizzoli. 'Tashkent: A Modernist Capital' ravishingly explores this ancient city on the Silk Road as a shrine to Soviet modernism. Realized in collaboration with the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation, photographer Karel Balas showcases the architecture of Tashkent through a collection of sublime, never-before-seen photographs. Constructed between the 1960s and 90s, buildings — among them a 1960s cinema, the State Museum of the Arts, and the '70s Lenin Museum — are shown to be powerful metaphors of a city in time. Each of the many striking edifices in this rare edition, authored by Beatrice Grenier and prefaced by Chris Dercon, tells an enthralling tale about Central Asia’s largest metropolis.