Baroque Modernity and the Colonial World: Aesthetics and Catastrophe in Nick Joaquin’s A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino

• Main Author: Blanco, John D.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: baroque; colonial modernity; Hispanism; Nick Joaquin; Teodoro Agoncillio
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss4/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1061/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n04_2004_5D_202.1_Article_Blanco.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The point of departure for these reflections is the status of “Hispanism” as an aesthetic mode (and possibly an elitist position or ideology in Philippine society) in a largely ignored debate within Philippine nationalist circles after World War II. In this instance, Dr. Blanco is thinking of the...