Miracles on the Border : Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States /
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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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
1995.
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Table des matières:
- 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.