Designing a Book Cover
- PHILIPPINE LITERATURE TODAY
Published by C and E Publishing Inc for the new General Curriculum (K2-12) 2015
About the Cover
The artist, Leo Carlo
Rojas Rotor, BSFA-ID (UST), MIT (AdMU), redefines a difficult subject like
literature on two fronts: the classic-tradition emanating from the beacon of a
sacred temple on one, and the post-modern at the other extreme to which the
beacon fades into the unknown. In
between the periodicity of time and space hangs in limbo the question, “Quo
vadis?” (Where is literature going?)
The artist answers: Like
in defining good government as government of,
for and by the people, so is good
literature. As a binding force of a
culture, literature is about people,
their history, their beliefs and ideas. Literature is the mouthpiece of the
people that carries their stories alive and beautiful from generation to
generation. Literature is their
collective masterpiece, their imprimatur.
Literature is agent of change, never passive, never submissive; it is a
pathfinder, a sailing vessel that brings “the promise of the tides.”
The artist’s confidence
in his concept is seeing Rizal alive today, his ideas bearing fruits in a free
world, Lola Basyang keeping children happy like in his time with mythology’s
eternal magic, Balagtas in a new Renaissance in cinemas and the Internet, and
Leona Florentino the muse of Philippine literature, unquestioned, undefiled.
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