Tag: French
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Anonymous was a Filipino: Who Drew Mallat’s Philippine Plates? Juan Serapio Transfiguración Nepomuceno and His Son
I began this inquiry by asking who made the original illustrations for Jean-Baptiste Mallat’s Les Philippines (1846). I initially suspected José Honorato Lozano, but the documentary evidence points more directly to another Manila artist: Juan Serapio Transfiguración Nepomuceno. The atlas’s celebrated hand-colored plates are repeatedly described simply as “French illustrations” or credited exclusively to Adolphe…
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What do we mean when we say “Happy Father’s Day”?
Maybe we are not only greeting a father, but acknowledging a presence that shaped us before we could fully recognize it. For Jacques Lacan, the father is not only the biological parent but also a place in language. The father is one of the first figures through whom we learn that love is also structure.…
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The Lover (dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1992)
The Lover (dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1992) is not the typical epic historical romance in the same way as Gone With the Wind might be but it plays on the same elements. While the plot of this well-worn genre revolves around the loss of innocence—which is often an allegory for the colonial experience—and of having…