[2] Starting with her articles penned in the era of Ferdinand Marcos, "Roces has argued that art, culture, and politics are inseparable.
[9] Marian Pastor Roces has several books, including Fabrics of life (1985) and Sinaunang Habi: Philippine Ancestral Weave (1991)[10] about her long-term research on textile traditions in Southeast Asia, as well as Puntóng Batangan: katwiran at dilà dine sa Batangas City (2006) about the oral language of Batangas Tagalog.
[11] Published in 2019, her most recent book is titled Gathering: Political Writing on Art and Culture.
This publication features a selection of her writings ranging from a 1974 article about photography to a 2018 keynote lecture about the intersection of conceptual art and authoritarianism in the Philippines.
The title of the book refers to a 1991 article where she creates a dialogue between her theoretical writing that draws on an exhibition and a discussion of artworks by Beth Jackson, past curator at Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane.