Ithaca College

"Of Agency and the Sublime: Politics and Painting in 19th-Century Rajasthan," a talk by Smithsonian curator Debra Diamond, is scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, at 7:00 p.m. in room 111 of the Park Center for Business and Sustainable Enterprise. It is free and open to the public.

The associate curator of South and Southeast Asian art for the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution will give the annual Marjorie Fortunoff Mayrock Lecture in History at Ithaca College.

Diamond’s research interests include Rajput painting, a style of painting that was developed in the Rajasthan region of India. In contrast to traditional art histories that evaluate Rajput painting as a deeply conservative practice underlying timeless Indic sovereignty, Diamond examines how Rajput artists created and how the court viewed and understood new imagery and styles that engaged with political, religious and spiritual transformations.

This is the 30th anniversary of the Marjorie Fortunoff Mayrock Lecture Series in History, which is funded by Elliot Mayrock '73 in memory of his mother. For more information, contact Michael Trotti, associate professor of history, at mtrotti@ithaca.edu.