Parsons

Faculty

The New School / Parsons

  • Rashmi Viswanathan

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Contemporary Art

    Profile:

    Rashmi Viswanathan writes on colonial-era art and its historiographies, and more recent art in and related to the Global Contemporary.

     

     

    Degrees Held:

    PhD History of Art, New York University Institute of Fine Arts

    MA History of Art, Hunter College

    BA Music, San Jose State University

    Recent Publications:

    “Collecting Asian Modern: The Grey Collection,” A Cultural History of Collecting (book chapter, 2018)     

    "An Architecture of Memory,” Third Text (2017)

    “The Tressider Album (18571863): A Case Study of a Private ‘Ethnography,’” Trans Asia Photography Review (2016)

    “Picturing Criminals,” Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of  Postcolonial Studies. Gen. Eds., Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray. Wiley Blackwell, 2015

     

     

    Research Interests:

    global Contemporary Art; history of photography; Islamic art history; visual anthropology and colonial studies

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