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3 gru 2020 · The book profiles ten Filipino artists who have been doing work that reflect their critical responses and views on the sociopolitical realities of Philippine society. It focuses on their inner lives and the influences that led them to who they are today and what they do as artists.
Art is a system of signs and symbols, a Language System. The interrelationships of these signs and symbols produce meanings. Shared meanings by a community through time produce identity. Cultural Studies analyzes form of these systems to deduce how Culture is constructed.1 Form is a consequence, a ‘by-product.’.
1 mar 2019 · The essay reflects on the practice of the Filipino art critic and art historian Alice Guillermo. Surfacing in her practice are such theoretical concerns as the social presence of art and the specificity of the artistic material in relation to its contexts.
For the point of departure, we took four generations of the sociology of art as defined by Nathalie Heinich as well as the identification of the following four elements: an artwork and its reception, an artist and a creative process, an audience, and a social-institutional framework.
made; there is no Filipino art, sculpture, dance, writing, religion, tradition, or national character. Even the casual visitor to the Philippines senses that the people on all levels have a deep feeling of cultural inferiority. To provide a positive concept of a Filipino culture and society, I would like to briefly discuss four propositions.3
Such subjectivity may be rooted in the artist’s values, ideals social and cultural background. The Filipino as an artist expresses his own subjectivity through his arts. Arts can also express the collective experiences, the thoughts, values, ideals and aspirations of a social group, e.g. community, race, nation.
Looking at the legacy of 1970s social realist painting in the Philippines, Patrick D. Flores reflects on the intersection of postcolonial discourse, historical imagination and political art practice. To name and annotate a practice is one stage in the discursive struggle of the term ‘social realism’ in the Philippines.
