Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art
By Patrick D. Flores
Co-published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
Winner of the 1999 Gawad Chanselor for Most Outstanding Book.
"This art history reconsiders how art historical productions, through the inculcated norms of art and history, tell the story of Philippine colonial painting, from the introduction of the practice in the Philippine 'islands' and 'natives' to its constitution as a State and academic institution of colonial rule. Inasmuch as these art histories have been contrived within local theoretical frameworks, we seek to track down the traces of certain critical modalities underwriting these perspectives, and so mark out a course for a reconstruction of the historical discourse through a critique of the said criticisms, a critical activity that inevitably discloses the tactics of the trade which organize particular operations within Philippine colonial art history and its attendant historiograhic analytic." (from the Introduction)
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