Mary's rain and God's umbrella: religion, identity, and modernity in the visionary art of a Chicana painter

In this article I introduce a self-taught Chicana artist, Caroline Martinez, and highlight her work's religious significance. I offer a brief account of her life and a preliminary interpretation of her art. The art that adorns her Texas home and yard, I argue, is a visual testimony to the inter...

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Main Author: Tweed, Thomas A. 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2010]
In: Material religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 274-303
Further subjects:B Latina
B Outsider
B Pentecostalism
B Modernity
B Texas
B Mexican American woman
B Religion
B Catholicism
B Identity
B Species
B Trauma
B visionary
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