E. Aguilar Cruz: The Writer as Painter Filipiniana this book of photographs and

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

and many other masters of Philippine art and their younger contemporaries

There are moments of humor and irony as well

instead of simply dismissing them in the wake of more recent methodologies

and reproductions of his influences Fernando Zobel

E. Aguilar Cruz: The Writer as Painter Filipiniana this book of photographs andEmilio Aguilar Cruz was a man of many talents: writer, art critic, painter, historian, diplomat, gourmand and raconteur, he was all these, and much more, to the the young Ambeth R. Ocampo for whom he was both mentor and friend. As such this book is both the artist's biography and a first hand account of the painter's work ethic and character, his style developing as he moved from writer to painter. First published in 1986 and long out of print as "The