The Life and Times of Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Edited by Purissima Benitez-Johannot (Out of Print0

Purita Kalaw-Ledesma, founder of the Art Association of the Philippines (AAP), was a towering and extraordinary figure in the development of Philippine art for more than five decades after the war and well into the postmodern era. Mining her extensive museum-worthy art collection and her own voluminous archive, the authors of this monograph trace the day-to-day activities and concerns of the emergent artistic communities she fostered and the tangents they pursued in various art movements. Clarissa O. Chikiamco covers the years 1948–1969; Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez analyzes the turbulent decade of the 1970s; and Patrick D. Flores contrasts and parallels Purita’s pioneering 1955 masteral thesis on art education with insights by artist Fernando Zóbel and poet journalist Francisco Arcellana. Edited by Purissima Benitez-Johannot, this book documents Purita’s historical record from 1948 to 2000 and her single-minded faith in the empowering possibilities of art to transcend the quotidian.
A Philippine import.

Publisher: Vibal Foundation & Kalaw Ledesma Foundation, Philippines (2017)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-971-97-0699-1
Format: Softbound
Pages: 200 pages, with Colored illustration
Dimensions: 29 x 23 cm