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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Durand, Jorge
Other Authors: Massey, Douglas S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1995.
Subjects:
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.
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