Anita Magsaysay-Ho : in praise of women / Alfredo Roces, with annotations on paintings by Anita Magsaysay-Ho.
Material type: TextPasig : The Crucible Workshop, ©2005Description: 300 pages : color illustrations 31 cmContent type:- text
- volume
- 9719128852
- ND 1029.H6 .R581 2005
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Isagani R. Cruz Collection | Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | ND 1029.H6 .R581 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 3IRC0000007215 | ||
Isagani R. Cruz Collection | Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | ND 1029.H6 .R581 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 3IRC0000006997 |
This book is a celebration of the life and works of one of the best, most sought after and most admired Filipino painters. Alfredo Roces' inquiry into Anita Magsaysay-Ho's life and how it has shaped her artworks is at once lucid and compassionate. His elegant, poetic prose charts the development of an artist - form her childhood vacations in bucolic Zambales and early education in UP to her independent struggle in the US to perfect her craft and her pained longing for her homeland - and weaves all these intricately with his incisive studies of her paintings. Accompanying Roces' narrative are over 300 paintings by Anita Magsaysay-Ho, some of which are annotated by the painter herself with comments on technique or the story behind the painting. These annotations reveal a lot about the painter. At the center of Anita Magsaysay-Ho's life work is the figure of the Filipino woman -at work, in prayer, at the shoreline of a strange beach, in the middle of an intimate chat with a friend, at a dance. Both text and images celebrate the resilience of women in this rare collaboration of two great artists.
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