Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen

Bio

Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen is the current Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art and a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art at Johns Hopkins University.

Contributions

The Art History to Come: Vivan Sundaram’s Marxism in the Expanded Field (Geeta’s Bookshelf), 1968–2000

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In 2000, the Indian artist Vivan Sundaram made a portrait of the critic Geeta Kapur’s bookshelf titled Marxism in the Expanded Field ( MEF, fig.1). Framed and sectioned by a beaten band of tape spelling a famous line from the Communist Manifesto, “All that is solid melts into air,” and executed nearly a decade after India’s neo-liberal reforms of 1991, MEF documents a suddenly precarious twentieth-century landscape: the aesthetics and politics of international Marxism

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