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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.
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.
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.
The spatial relationship between CNU and NCCA in the governance structure of cultural affairs in the Philippines was a legitimate means of advancing, preserving and developing the culture and the arts of the country through the training of Filipino educators that is responsive to the multicultural needs of the Filipinos to improve their quality ...
Art is a human construct, constrained by social forces and ideologies. This document discusses the premises of studying art within a social context. It argues that art should be understood as a signifying practice grounded in society and history.
Take a Line for a Walk is a group exhibition that presents drawing as an essential practice in art-making, especially in the social realist movement in the Philippines. Featured in this...
Philippine sociology roots to two great but somewhat conflicting Western cultural traditions : Spanish Catholic Neo-Thomism and an almost simplistic American empericism and pragmatism, heavily laced in the early American period by a Protestant social ethic. To a certain extent Philippine sociology has never recovered from the shock of its
