Rashmi Viswanathan is a historian of Modern and Contemporary Art who looks at the ways that arts move across different cultural, regional, and historical contexts. She is the Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary art at the University of Hartford, a Visiting Senior Fellow with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, a Senior Fellow with the American Institute of Indian Studies, and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Smithsonian Institution.
Rashmi Viswanathan
Contributions
Dreaming through Marg
In 1946, the arts and culture journal Marg was founded under the editorial leadership of writer, arts patron, and cultural critic Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004). Dedicated to the promotion and analysis of the arts, Marg featured modernist practices and heritage forms from around the world and from a diverse range of periods in illustrative displays, scholarly essays, and editorial content. Multiple discourses were brought into conversation with each other through a type of visual pedagogy. From architectural modernism to art history to practices in picture framing, it interpreted and taught a new modernist historical arc of arts in a decolonizing India.