00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-8027295163992906312 Buklod 20241001140756.0 m |o d | ta 240930s2022 ph a r m 00| u|eng d DCFA rda eng LG 995 2022 A75 T37 Tapang, Lisa Ito author In search of the forest tracing trajectories of loss, lives, and transformation across botanical illustration in the Philippines Lisa Ito-Tapang ; Flaudette May V. Datuin, adviser ; Helen Yu-Rivera, reader. Quezon City College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman 2022 355 leaves illustrations (some color) 28 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Thesis (Master of Arts in Art Studies)--University of the Philippines Diliman June 2022 Bibliography: leaves 337-348 The thesis explores art historiographical narratives to produce a provisional history of botanical illustration as a visual practice in the Philippines. By delving into points in her own encounters with the material as an art history student and environmental advocate, the researcher expands the discussion on a currently under-investigated area of local study and art historical research. Taking off from Daniela Bleichmar's (2014) notion of botanical illustrations as visual epistemology within the broader field of visual culture and Gillian Rose (2001) and Sunil Manghani's (2013) models of image modalities and ecologies, systems and communities, the study delves on the three aspects of time, visuality, and agency to reflect on how botanical illustration is embedded as an interdisciplinary practice within Philippine art and science. Weighing J.W.T. Mitchell's notion of visual culture and representation as both "social construction of the visual field" and "visual construction of the social field", the study applies the notion of an ecology of images to thread through and craft narratives of these images as loss, lives, and history. It asserts how botanical illustration is a continuing practice in the Philippines, where artists have collectively portrayed thousands of plants through hundreds of publications across the Spanish and U.S. colonial periods up to the post-war era. Philippine art history is enriched by the lessons one can learn on historiography, on artistic practice and agency, and on visuality. In doing so, it threads through and reassesses the nature of Philippine botanical illustration as a representation beyond mimesis: as a tradition and local practice weighed with historical change, geopolitical conditions, and negotiated creativity and imagination. Botanical illustration. Visual culture. Plant illustration. Morphological characteristics. Datuin, Flaudette May V. adviser. Rivera, Helen Yu reader. FI UP UPD DCFA LG 995 2022 A75 T37 Thesis