Protest/Revolutionary Art in the Philippines 1970-1990

by Alice G. Guillermo

A valuable resource for students of art and art history, this book is the fruit of two decades of research and association with social realists and other protest and in revolutionary artists. Guillermo goes back to the origins of protest art in the 19th century and pursues it to its full flourishing in the Marcos regime and its variations during the Aquino administration. It also projects the trajectory of art into the future as new issues emerge to engage the political artist.

Genres: Nonfiction

268 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Alice Guerrero Guillermo is a renowned writer, researcher, art critic and professor in Philippine art.

She undertook her undergraduate studies at the Holy Ghost College. She became a scholar of the French government at Université d'Aix-Marseille. She received her doctoral degree in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines
She won the Art Criticism Award of the Art Association of the Philippines in 1976. From 1995 to 1996 she continued research in Japan under a Japan Foundation Fellowship. She has written widely on art, culture, and politics, and has read papers in numerous local and international conferences.

In 1999, she was awarded the distinction of Centennial Honoree for the Arts (Art Criticism) by the Cultural Center of the Philippines. She currently teaches at the Department of Art Studies, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines.