E. Aguilar Cruz: The Writer as Painter Filipiniana adorned album covers and movie

adorned album covers and movie posters

and many other masters of Philippine art and their younger contemporaries

There are moments of humor and irony as well

and repercussion are indistinguishable from each other

Pacita Abad: A Million Things To Say presents the artist’s work within the discourse generated by her trapuntos – stitched

E. Aguilar Cruz: The Writer as Painter Filipiniana adorned album covers and movieEmilio Aguilar Cruz was a man of many talents: writer, art critic, painter, historian, diplomat, gourmand and raconteur, he was all these, and much more, to the the young Ambeth R. Ocampo for whom he was both mentor and friend. As such this book is both the artist's biography and a first hand account of the painter's work ethic and character, his style developing as he moved from writer to painter. First published in 1986 and long out of print as "The