Course Description: Forms, histories, and themes of the visual arts in the Philippines

Course Topics:

• Framing the visual
• Framing the Philippine in the visual arts
• The visual arts of Philippine indigenous cultures
• The visual arts of Philippine Islamic cultures
• Philippine religious visual forms
• Philippine folk visual forms
• From the Academic to academicism
• Art and the Philippine nation as site of modernity
• The visual arts during the Marcos Martial Law period
• Philippine visual arts after 1986