Tag: irineo miranda
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From the Archive: Philippine University’s 1936 Painting Exhibition
Originally published in The American Chamber of Commerce Journal, Vol. XVI, No.4 (April 1936) We review the yearly art exhibit at the University of the Philippines because wealth patronizes art and because, further, it is far ahead of past exhibits. We should say it contains at least a dozen pieces that would grace the average…
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Modernist Morophilia
Thank you to my colleagues at the Ateneo, especially Charlie Samuya Veric, for making this possible. This lecture on January 19 2026 will be inside Ateneo Katipunan Campus at the NGF Conference Room, located on the ground floor of Horacio De La Costa Hall. During my dissertation research, I came to see how many of…
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Mga Bilanggong Birhen (1977), an Amorsolo-Pastoral in Film
Mga Bilanggong Birhen (1977) is set on a Visayan hacienda during the early years of American colonial administration. The film follows the Sagrada family—Felipa, Juan, Doña Sagrada, and the daughters Celina and Milagros—within a household that retains social structures established during the late Spanish period. Throughout the film, the architecture of the ancestral home, its…
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Irineo Miranda’s Ethnographic Portrait of Nina Rasul and the Philippine Bangsamoro
My article, “Irineo Miranda’s Ethnographic Portrait of Nina Rasul and the Philippine Bangsamoro,” is now out in the latest issue of Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints (Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 3–43). This piece revisits Miranda’s 20th-century illustrations through the lens of colonial ethnography, visual anthropology, and Bangsamoro history, tracing how his portrait of…
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