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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.
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.’.
As far as the Filipino national identity is concerned the arts has an important role to play. Arts expresses and manifest our national identity through our creative, imaginative, aesthetic and technical skills. It is a showcase of the ingenuity and talents. Arts enables us to preserve our good values, beliefs, practices and traditions. Arts as ...
a broad sense, we study Philippine art as produced within the context of national conditions, social, economic, and political in a particular period of history, as for instance, the second half of the 19th century, the postwar period to the 60’s, or the Marcos regime.
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.
the Philippines must start with the recognition of the crucial conse-quences of the Hispano-American colonial legacies, past and present American funding practices, the talents and caprices of a few American social scientists, and present Philippine socio-political restraints. Consequently, sociology in the Philippines today manifests certain
