There are moments of humor and irony as well
adorned album covers and movie posters
instead of simply dismissing them in the wake of more recent methodologies
But they never lost pride in their ethnic heritage and have always strived to maintain their identity
resulting in his undeserved obscurity
E. Aguilar Cruz: The Writer as Painter Filipiniana There are moments of humorEmilio Aguilar Cruz was a man of many talents: writer, art critic, painter, historian, diplomat, gourmand and raconteur, he was all these, and much more, to the the young Ambeth R. Ocampo for whom he was both mentor and friend. As such this book is both the artist's biography and a first hand account of the painter's work ethic and character, his style developing as he moved from writer to painter. First published in 1986 and long out of print as "The