The "Retablo" Practice in Mexican Votive Art
Author: Porfirio Mauricio Loeza
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 430
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Art and Faith in Mexico
Author: Elizabeth Netto Calil Zarur
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780826323248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies retabloes--Mexican paintings on tin created in the latter half of the nineteenth century--from art, religious, and historical perspectives, and discusses efforts made to restore and conserve the artwork.
Oxford Bibliographies
Author: Ilan Stavans
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ISBN-13: 9780199913701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.
Miracles on the Border
Author: Jorge Durand
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2020-05-01
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0816541531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis vivid study, richly illustrated with forty color photographs, offers a multilayered analysis of retablos—folk images painted on tin that are offered as votives of thanks for a miracle granted or a favor bestowed—created by Mexican migrants to the United States. Durand and Massey analyze 124 contemporary retablo texts, scrutinizing the shifting subjects and themes that constitute a running record of the migrant's unique experience. The result is a vivid work of synthesis that connects the history of an art form and a people, links two very different cultures, and allows a deeper understanding of a major twentieth-century theme—the drama of transnational migration.
Mexican Folk Retablos
Author: Gloria Fraser Giffords
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780826313690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first part of the book is given to an analysis of folk retablo painting. The second part concentrates on iconography and on why certain images of Christ, Mary, and the saints were venerated. The third part examines ex-votos, small images painted to commemorate the donor's gratitude for a favor.
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico
Author: Frank Graziano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 019979085X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico offers an exploration of miracles, petitionary devotion, and ex votos, based on extensive fieldwork in Guanajuato, Jalisco, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas. A sequel to Graziano's Culture of Devotion (2006), this study contributes to the fields of material religion and psychology of religion.
Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States
Author: Paul DiMaggio
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010-10-13
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0813550416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration, multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home communities and the larger society. They address the art forms that these modern settlers bring with them; show how poets, musicians, playwrights, and visual artists adapt traditional forms to new environments; and consider the ways in which the communities' young people integrate their own traditions and concerns into contemporary expression.
School's Out
Author: Glynda A. Hull
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780807741894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely book uses research on literacy outside of school to challenge how we think about literacy inside of school. Bringing together highly respected literacy researchers, this volume bridges the divide in the literature between formal education and the many informal settings, such as homes, community organizations, and after-school programs, in which literacy learning flourishes. To help link research findings with teaching practices, each chapter includes a response from classroom teachers (K-12) and literacy educators. This book's unique blending of perspectives will have a profound effect on how literacy will be taught in school.
Chicano Folklore
Author: Rafaela Castro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001-11-15
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780195146394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published under title: Dictionary of Chicano folklore. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2000.
Women in Mexican Folk Art
Author: Eli Bartra
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2013-12-15
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1783160756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the perspective of gender. The author will demonstrate that the topic provides unique insights into Mexican culture, and has enormous relevance within and without the country, given the fact that much folk art is made for the United States and Europe, either in terms of the tourists who buy it on coming to Mexico, or that which is exported.
