Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States by Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand

Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand

216 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction art emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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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 st...

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