Taller Arte del Amancer (Art Workshop of the New Dawn) hosts Maceo Montoya of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â faculty and Yxta Maya Murray for a program about their new novels, both centered on Latinx artists struggling to make their voices heard.
The virtual event, including readings by both authors, is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Thursday (May 6). Taller Arte del Amancer, or TANA, is a community workshop administered by the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
- Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces
- Written and illustrated by Maceo Montoya, associate professor, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Says the publisher: “An inventive and adventurous satirical novel about a Mexican-American artist’s efforts to fulfill his vision: to paint masterful works of art. ... Told through a combination of words and images in the tradition of classic works such as Don Quixote and Alice in Wonderland, Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces features 51 vivid black-and-white pen drawings. This complex and engaging story also doubles as literary criticism, commenting on how outsiders’ stories fit into the larger context of the Chicanx literary canon. A unique and multilayered story that embraces both contradiction and possibility, it also sheds new light on the current state of Chicanx literature while, at the same time, contributing to it.â€
Murray, besides being a fiction writer and art critic, is a professor of law at Loyola Marymount University. Her new book is Art Is Everything (TriQuarterly, Jan. 15, 2021), subject of an ARTNews article titled,
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