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Splendor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 87

Splendor

This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition SPLENDOR: Juan Luna, Painter as Hero, a multimedia exhibition mounted in celebration of the 125th anniversary of Philippine Independence and Nationhood. The exhibition and accompanying publication aim to capture a watershed moment in our history through the analysis and investigation of the long-lost painting by Juan Luna, Hymen, oh Hyménée! which received a Bronze medal at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris. Organized around three main themes, namely: the world of 1889, the complex imagery of Hymen, oh Hyménée!, and the painter as hero, the exhibition hopes to be both a fitting introduction to this important cultural treasure and a compelling prompt to revisit our country’s journey to nationhood, amid a radically and rapidly transforming world surrounding it at that time.

Zóbel: The Future of the Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Zóbel: The Future of the Past

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the Asian premiere of Zóbel: The Future of the Past, exhibited at Ayala Museum from September 14, 2024 to January 26, 2025.

Landscape into Painting
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 41

Landscape into Painting

  • Categories: Art

With the opening of the newly renovated Ayala Museum in 2021 also came the inaugural exhibition in the new Fernando Zóbel gallery entitled Landscape into Painting: Fernando Zóbel Serie Blanca, which focuses on the peak of lyricism in Zóbel’s artistic practice. While the Serie Blanca period may not have been the ultimate destination in Zóbel’s visual odyssey, this passage was a definite milestone in Zóbel’s mastery over material, form, and composition. This catalogue, which accompanies the exhibition and co-published by Ayala Foundation, Inc. and Vibal Foundation, Inc., features a curatorial essay by Ditas R. Samson expanding the short discussion in the gallery, as well as Rafael Pérez-Madero's interview with Zóbel in the 1978 publication, Zóbel: La Serie Blanca.

Intertwined: Transpacific, Transcultural Philippines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Intertwined: Transpacific, Transcultural Philippines

  • Categories: Art

This book is published in conjunction with Intertwined: Transpacific, Transcultural Philippines, Ayala Museum's inaugural exhibition for its newly renovated space opened in 2021. It is authored by the exhibition curator Florina H. Capistrano-Baker, Ph.D. and features essays by contributing scholars and field experts—Sandra Castro; Michael F. Manalo, M.Arch; Maria Cristina Martinez-Juan, Ph.D.; and Iván Valdez-Bubnov, Ph.D. Intertwined provides important scholarship on Filipino heritage and transpacific studies. The publication also serves as the catalogue of the exhibition. The exhibition and its joint publication open up visual and verbal conversations on the complexities and contradictions of Filipino art and identity. By illuminating the Filipino’s transcultural heritage resulting from pre- and post-colonial maritime exchanges with diverse cultures in Asia, America, and Europe, Filipinos can gain a better understanding of our culture and take pride in the excellence we've shown throughout history in the arts, diplomacy, entrepreneurship, and the global economy.

Transpacific Engagements
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Transpacific Engagements

Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, competing European empires, notably Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, and others vied for commercial and political control of transoceanic networks, particularly the transpacific routes between Asia and the Americas. The essays in Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898) address the resulting cultural and artistic exchanges with an emphasis on both the Spanish and American enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region. The essays are grouped into three parts entitled “Entangled Empires,” “Empires and Translations,” and “Empires and Trade.” A...

Tabacalera
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 208

Tabacalera

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Self Portrait in Green
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 81

Self Portrait in Green

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-02-25
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  • Publisher: Influx Press

'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.

The Mosquito Bite Author
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 155

The Mosquito Bite Author

Originally published in 2011, The Mosquito Bite Author is the seventh novel by the acclaimed Turkish author Barış Bıçakçı. It follows the daily life of an aspiring novelist, Cemil, in the months after he submits his manuscript to a publisher in Istanbul. Living in an unremarkable apartment complex in the outskirts of Ankara, Cemil spends his days going on walks, cooking for his wife, repairing leaks in his neighbor’s bathroom, and having elaborate imaginary conversations in his head with his potential editor about the meaning of life and art. Uncertain of whether his manuscript will be accepted, Cemil wavers between thoughtful meditations on the origin of the universe and the trajectory of political literature in Turkey, panic over his own worth as a writer, and incredulity toward the objects that make up his quiet world in the Ankara suburbs.

Laudate hominem. Uno studio «sacrilego» su La buona novella di De André
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 118
Straight from the Horse's Mouth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Straight from the Horse's Mouth

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Public Library This hilarious, colorful portrait of a sex worker navigating life in modern Morocco introduces a promising new literary voice. Thirty-four-year-old prostitute Jmiaa reflects on the bustling world around her with a brutal honesty, but also a quick wit that cuts through the drudgery. Like many of the women in her working-class Casablanca neighborhood, Jmiaa struggles to earn enough money to support herself and her family—often including the deadbeat husband who walked out on her and their young daughter. While she doesn’t despair about her profession like her roommate, Halima, who reads the Quran between clients, she still has...