(Alim A Hosein is Dean of Education and Humanities at the University of Guyana; a linguist, artist, literary and art critic; Convenor of the Guyana Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition; Member of the Management Committee of the Guyana Prize for Literature)
By Alim Hosein
A book of artwork titled Panorama – A Portrait of Guyana was launched at Cara Lodge on Monday January 12. This publication, which features artwork from the National Collection of Guyana, is the result of a partnership between the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport to produce a series of such books. This agreement will, to some extent, realise a project that has been mooted for some time—making available the works of the national collection, housed in the National Art Gallery, Castellani House, for viewing by the wide public and providing more-or-less permanent images of the works.
The partnership agreement was signed in the first half of 2014, and calls for the production of three books over three years, that is,