Teacher to Tycoon: The Life and Times of Trinidad Diaz Enriquez Art Collecting is something the artist

Collecting is something the artist does by instinct

this book of photographs and essays reveals the powerful political implications of visualizing history and nationalism through the lenses of the camera

Since its opening in 1995

and an outspoken critic of Ferdinand Marcos’s autocratic regime

They played before the emperor of Japan and led William Howard Taft to his inauguration as the President of the United States

Teacher to Tycoon: The Life and Times of Trinidad Diaz Enriquez Art Collecting is something the artistAwarded Best Feminist Thesis in Creative Writing by the UP Center for Women's Studies (2000) Here is a story replete with detail, both intimate (Modesto Enriquez's private jokes, for instance) and social Here is a story full of lively characters who, besides having a role in the unfolding personal narrative, were major players in the larger scene, the nation dragging itself in fits and starts into the modern age, stumbling, getting up, lurching