Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Mark Justiniani
Lea Padilla
Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
(Photo courtesy the artist)
Migrant worker
Migrant worker
Liang Shuo
Dorothea Lange
Modernity:
tensions
✔ environmental
degradation
Nunelucio Alvarado
Modernity: tensions
✔ Rationality,
reason,
reflexivity
✔ dehumanization,
alienation (Marx)
Modernity: tensions
✔ Rationality,
reason, reflexivity
✔ anomie
(Durkheim)
Nuclear holocaust (WMD)
irrationality of
rationality
(Weber)
Barbara Kruger
AIDS, SARS
Modernism: third usage
✔ Modern tradition in “high art”
✔ autonomy of the “aesthetic” (Greenberg)
✔ search for new vocabularies (renewal)
✔ break from the “classical”
formal self-consciousness
Edades
Lao Lianben
Ang Kiukok
And Job Was Also Man
Formal
innovations
Engagement
with social
realities
Colonial period
“native revolution” Esteban Villanueva
(Basi Revolt)- Luzon
middle class reform: Juan Luna (Luzon)
Ruptures and continuities
Colonial period
“homegrown” - Domingo, Malantic, Flores
educated abroad - Luna, Hidalgo, Edades
Ruptures and continuities
Amorsolo,
Planting Rice
Modern
Edades and 13 moderns (Luzon), Abellana
(Visayas)
✔ break away from Spanish academic
traditions towards New York and Paris Joya, Christ Stripped Bare
schools
conflict with socio-economic
conditions
Emancipation ✔ Chaotic and uneven
Renewal modernization
Expansion ✔ (Manila)/(regions)
Democratization ✔ New York)/Paris
✔ unequal distribution of
wealth and knowledge
✔ Class struggle,
corruption
Conflicting projects
Emancipation ✔ aesthetic advancement
Renewal and market demands
Expansion ✔ radical potential and
Democratization the state
tensions
Emancipation ✔ cooptation
Renewal ✔ standardization,
Expansion simplification
Democratization ✔ bureaucratization
✔ e.g. coffeetable books,
emphasis on
biography
tensions
Emancipation ✔ hodgepodge of styles
Renewal ✔ faddishness
Expansion ✔ affectations
Democratization ✔ novelty, exoticism
✔ “essential” identity
tensions
Emancipation ✔ failure to engage
Renewal audiences in debates
Expansion ✔ neglecting the promise
Democratization of research
✔ need for education in
the arts
Recommendations
Installation: 2 lifesize figures, one wooden and one in glass. The top figure is of a
Pintado, a tatooed visayan native from the prehispanic era.. The wooden Pintado is held
by natural fibers.
The figure below represents
a man of the computer age,
made of etched glass and
mounted on a bed of sand
production