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Retablos
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Octavio Solis
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-16 - Publisher:

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Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes--a memoir about growing up brown at the U.S./Mexico border. The tradition of retablo painting dates bac
Red-Inked Retablos
Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: Rigoberto Gonz‡lez
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-14 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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In the Mexican Catholic tradition, retablos are ornamental structures made of carved wood framing an oil painting of a devotional image, usually a patron saint.
Mexican Folk Retablos
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Gloria Fraser Giffords
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: UNM Press

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The 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, Ma
Miracles on the Border
Language: en
Pages: 235
Authors: Jorge Durand
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-01 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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This vivid study, richly illustrated with forty color photographs, offers a multilayered analysis of retablos—folk images painted on tin that are offered as v
A Century of Retablos
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Charles M. Carrillo
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Hudson Hills

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In recent years, tremendous attention has been focused on the Arts of 18th and 19th century New Mexico. This colonial period benefited from a creative and relig