Institutions and icons of patronage : arts and culture in the Philippines during the Marcos years, 1965-1986 / Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut.

Includes appendices and bibliography.

With Institutions and Icons of Patronage, Philippine cultural studies, and the critical study of culture in general, enters an important new phase in the ongoing synthesizing of theoretical, historical, and empirical investigation and scholarly inquiry. Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut masterfully articulates the complex ways in which modes of social responsibility and reciprocity continued to frame, inform, and respond to the diverse political transformations impacting artistic and cultural patronage during the Marcos years. An inspiring account of the pluralities and prismatic nature of Philippine character and its remarkable capacity to preserve and recuperate its complex and varied pasts by dynamically inventing its possible futures.