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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Durand, Jorge
Autres auteurs: Massey, Douglas S.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1995.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.