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Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces

Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces

Montoya, Maceo

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Series: New Oeste

General FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1647790751
ISBN13: 9781647790752
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: Sep 27 2022
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Selected as one of the San Francisco Chronicles' 15 best books of 2021

From critically acclaimed author Maceo Montoya comes an inventive and adventurous satirical novel about a Mexican-American artist's efforts to fulfill his vision: to paint masterful works of art. His plans include a move to Paris to join the ranks of his artistic hero, Gustave Courbet--except it's 1943, and he's stuck in the backwoods of New Mexico. Penniless and prone to epileptic fits, even his mother thinks he's crazy.

Ernie Lobato has just inherited his deceased uncle's manuscript and drawings. At the urging of his colleague, an activist and history buff (Lorraine Rios), Ernie sends the materials to a professor of Chicanx literature (Dr. Samuel Pizarro). Throughout the novel, Dr. Pizarro shares his insights and comments on the uncle's legacy in a series of annotations to his text and illustrations.

As Ernie's uncle battles a world that is unkind to starving artists, he runs into other tormented twentieth-century artists, writers, and activists with ambitions to match his own: a young itinerant preacher (Reies López Tijerina); the greatest insane artist (Martín Ramirez); and Oscar Zeta Acosta who is hellbent on self-destruction. Will the fortuitous encounters with these prophetic figures result in his own genius being recognized? Or will his

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