Folk Art: The Thread to National Art by Ricarte M. Puruganan

Folk Art: The Thread to National Art by Ricarte M. Puruganan (1983) argues that Filipino national art should be built from the country’s own indigenous traditions rather than Western forms, pairing his scholarly thesis with his own folk-inspired modernist paintings. Puruganan, one of the Thirteen Moderns, wrote the text, drawings, and layout himself, illustrating his case with work from contemporaries pursuing the same thesis.