Beautiful, Brutalist Imelda Marcos: Parks, Pageants, Photographs, Palaces

TITLE: Beautiful, Brutalist Imelda Marcos: Parks, Pageants, Photographs, Palaces SPEAKER: Patrick Flores The lecture revisits Imelda Marcos, First Lady of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, both as the patron of the arts and the persona that rendered the arts sensible in various ways. The terms beautiful and brutalist reference Imelda’s preferred tropes to perform the gestures of two states of fantasy: culture, civilization, and mythology, on the one hand; and development and international presence, on the other. Recorded on 22 July 2017 This video is made available via a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. License does not extend to additional materials used in presentation, which copyright belong to their rightful owners. This presentation includes copyrighted content that are not covered under the above-mentioned Creative Commons license. User discretion is advised