Transcendental Train Yard: A Collaborative Suite of Serigraphs
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0916727971 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 48 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Their expressionistic, dreamlike representations bring to consciousness reservoirs of feelings and primordial images from the Mexican collective unconsciousThis is what Transcendental Train Yard does; it invites us to reminisce, to meditate on these issues and to dwell in our memories." —Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Ph.D.
"A beautiful book with some substantial historical essays as well" according to Amazon Customer. Transcendental Train Yard is a delightful collection of poems and art that celebrates the culture and history of trains in a way seldom done. The color serigraphs are side by side with bilingual poems, in Spanish and English. But not only were the poems inspired by the artwork, the art also incoporates the poetry, thus making the book an unusual reflexive form of ekphrastic creativity. A beautiful book with some substantial historical essays as well.
Transcendental Train Yard is a collection of color serigraphs accompanied by bilingual poems, in Spanish and English, inspired by the artwork. The scholarly essays by Cortez and Haney and the evocative preface by noted Chicano scholar Tomás Ybarra Frausto bring an added depth.. Artist Marta Sanchez and poet Norma Elia Cantú collaboratively render images and words that poignantly reflect specific periods in that history. Transcendental Train Yard provides the reader a glimpse of the role the railroad and the carpas (itinerant vaudeville troupes) played in the Mexican American community