{"product_id":"philippine-figurine-image-ornament-art","title":"Philippine Figurine: Image, Ornament, Art","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eISBN: 978-981-18-4046-3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e245 mm (H) × 180 mm (W)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e241 pages | 20 colour illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e15 July 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePublisher: National Gallery Singapore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the author\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePatrick Flores is Chief Curator of the National Gallery Singapore. He has written significantly on Southeast Asian art, specifically its colonial and modernist formations, and has curated contemporary exhibitions on and through Southeast Asia. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999 and a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2014. Among his publications are \u003ci\u003ePainting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art\u003c\/i\u003e (1999); \u003ci\u003ePast Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia\u003c\/i\u003e (2008); \u003ci\u003eRaymundo Albano: Texts\u003c\/i\u003e (2017); and \u003ci\u003eThe Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), which he co-edited with T.K. Sabapathy. He was a Curator (Position Papers) at the Gwangju Biennale in 2008, the Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale in 2019 and Curator of the Philippine Pavilion in 2015 and the Taiwan exhibition in 2022 at the Venice Biennale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis compelling collection of essays is a mediation on “the figurine,” theorised as a means to rethink concepts of art, ornament, the decorative and the devotional, and their postcolonial implications. Each of the seven essays is a close reading of a particular image, ranging from the annual procession of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila, to the work of the 19th-century painter Juan Luna. Written by leading curator Professor Patrick Flores, this third title in the National Gallery Singapore Art Writing imprint is an enlivening reading for those with an interest in art theory and the postcolonial condition of the image in the Global South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePhilippine Figurine is an elaborately annotated, exquisitely precise art-historical exposition of the cultures of the Philippines as an archipelago and a colony. It gifts to contemporary consciousness a spectral brilliance gained from material sites of cultural knowledge. Patrick Flores leaves us beholden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e—GEETA KAPUR, art critic and curator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Gallery Singapore Art Writing\u003c\/b\u003e is a new, imprint celebrating the diverse voices and genres of writing that create the discourse of art in Southeast Asia, both historically and in the present. Going beyond conventional art history, books in this imprint include compilations of artist writings, art criticism and experimental approaches to the image. \u003ci\u003ePhilippine Figurine \u003c\/i\u003eis the third title in this imprint.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ABRY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46937146163373,"sku":"9789811840463","price":571000.0,"currency_code":"IDR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5791\/files\/9789811840463_-_Philippine_Figurine_Front_Cover.jpg?v=1785289619","url":"https:\/\/abry.global\/en-id\/products\/philippine-figurine-image-ornament-art","provider":"ABRY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}