Miracles on the border : retablos of Mexican migrants to the United States /

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Few forms of religious folk art are as abundant or expressive as Mexican retablos - folk images painted on sheets of tin that are offered as votives of thanks to Christ or the Virgin Mary for a miracle granted or a favor bestowed. In this vivid study, Jorge Durand and Douglas Massey offer a multilay...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Durand, Jorge
Otros Autores: Massey, Douglas S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1995.
Temas:
Painting, Mexican.
Christian art and symbolism > Mexico.
Votive offerings in art.
Folk art > Mexico.
Christian art and symbolism.
Peinture mexicaine.
Art chrétien.
Ex-voto > Mexique.
Ex-voto > États-Unis.
Art populaire > Mexique.
Mexicains > États-Unis.
Ex-voto.
ex-votos (religious visual works)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Folk art.
Votivtafel
Chicanos
Mexico.
Chicanos.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Manuel Rodriguez Lapuente
  • Introduction: The Miracle of Migrants' Retablos
  • Ch. 1. The Origins of Votive Painting
  • Ch. 2. Retablos in Theory and Practice
  • Ch. 3. Artists and Retablos
  • Ch. 4. Sacred Shrines, Holy Icons, and Migrants
  • Ch. 5. The Content of Migrants' Retablos
  • Ch. 6. Masterpieces on Tin: A Survey of Migrants' Retablos
  • Ch. 7. Catalog of Retablos.

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