Debra Diamond

Freer Gallery of Art and Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

January–February 2002

Debra Diamond is associate curator of South and Southeast Asian art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. A specialist in Rajput painting, Diamond's adventurous combination of formal analysis with semiotic and postcolonial theories--evidenced in several articles and catalogue entries--has already distinguished her work among recent developments in the field of Asian art studies. At the Clark, Diamond will complete an article, "The Light of the Sun: Historical Narrative in Rajput Painting," that will examine pictorial representations of kingship and historical time in a genre very much in need of art historical revaluation.