Fabian de la Rosa and His Times (PRE-ORDER)

SYNOPSIS:

Editor/Contributor: Ana Maria Theresa P. Labrador
Contributors: Macario Ofilada Mina, Santiago Albano Pilar, Luciano PR Santiago        

As the first Filipino director of the UP School of Fine Arts (now the UP College of Fine Arts), Fabian de la Rosa is considered part of the last generation of artists influenced and taught by Lorenzo Guerrero, Miguel Zaragoza, Simon Flores, Juan Luna, and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo. In 1904, he won the gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition in Missouri for his painting entitled Planting Rice, becoming one of the earliest Filipino artists to gain international recognition after the aforementioned Flores, Luna, and Hidalgo.

Fabian de la Rosa and His Times is a visual overview and collection of essays on a Filipino master whose acclaimed career—spanning the transition between two colonial periods, Spanish and American—has nonetheless remained relatively obscure, eclipsed by his illustrious predecessors Luna and Hidalgo, and by his famous nephew and protégé Fernando Amorsolo.

In this lavishly illustrated book, de la Rosa speaks directly to the reader through his Spanish and English essays, gathered by Don Alfonso Ongpin. Eminent scholars and authors like Luciano P. R. Santiago, Santiago Albano Pilar, Macario Ofilada Mina, and editor Ana Maria P. Labrador contribute essays on the artist’s life, the context of the historical period he lived in, the artists who influenced his work, and his legacy in terms of the artists and institutions he helped shape.

By standing as testament to the invaluable role of Fabian de la Rosa and the Philippines in the art world of the nineteenth and twentieth century, Fabian de la Rosa and His Times aims to help restore the great artist to his rightful place in the panorama of Philippine art history.

Published: 2007
Pages: 131 
Cover Softbound

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