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From: AHDS Visual Arts [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 19 August 2005 10:20
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Subject: Sunlight on a Broken Column
A new digital collection from AHDS Visual Arts has brought together nearly
three thousand images from the South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts
Archive (SALIDAA), an organisation created to highlight the richness and
diversity of contemporary South Asian literature and arts in Britain.
The SALIDAA collection covers five main areas: literature, visual arts,
theatre, dance and music and includes material in the English language
dating, approximately, from 1947 to the present. Examples of work from this
archive include an eclectic collection of artwork, photographs, flyers and
exhibition programmes from Avinash Chandra, one of the most successful
contemporary Indian British painters; album art from Outcaste Records, a
major label in world music, and excerpts from Anita Hosain's
semi-autographical novel Sunlight on a Broken Column which explores themes
of family, rebellion and social and political change as India is on the
verge of Partitition.
Although not comprehensive, the SALIDAA collection provides a representative
sample of the artistic and cultural contribution made by South Asian people
to the developments of arts and literature in Britain.
AHDS Visual Arts is pleased to be delivering this interesting collection and
now has over 50,000 freely available and fully cross-searchable images for
research, learning and teaching.
For more information on SALIDAA go to
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/SALIDAA.html
Visit SALIDAA and all other AHDS Visual Arts collections at
http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk.
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