City blindness: Visuality and modernity in the works of Iza Caparas, Farley del Rosario and Daniel Aligaen

• Main Author: Devilles, Gary C
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2012
• Subjects: city; contradiction; Manila; modernism; Philippines; urban studies; visual arts
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/2; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0725513612452659
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

For Georg Simmel, humans confront their basic contradiction in the city, and such contradiction warrants critical assessment to help in the long tradition of articulating the problematic development of cities or metropolises, and hopefully advocate for the kind of life we want. This contradiction is...