TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guerrero, Amadis Ma.
TI  - Amadeo Y. Manalad history's muralist.
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Manila
PB  - Kasaysayan Pub.
KW  - Manalad, Amadeo Y., 1911-1984
KW  - sears
KW  - Mural painting and decoration
KW  - Mural painting and decoration, Filipino
N2  -  and Manalad's reputation would probably be much larger if more of his lyrical murals had survived;  in fact, Manalad may have even influenced Francisco's early work; This book by the well-known art historian Amadis Ma. Guerrero redress a historical anomaly: the utter neglect of the painter and muralist Amadeo Y. Manalad, a contemporary - and- peer of the National artists Carlos V. Francisco and Vicente Manansala. It is a modest book, as befits its subject: a diffident and tentative man who might have become as renowned as his friends and rivals, had he not been so self-effacing and unassertive. But Manalad's draftsmanship, in Guerrero's estimation, "was almost equal, if not equal to that of "Botong"
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