Popular devotion and border crossings: Mexican ex-voto paintings
Ex-voto paintings are the visual manifestation of popular religion and areobjects offered as votives of thanks to Christ or Virgin Mary. These paintingsprovide art historical, ethnographical and literary evidence of socio-economiccircumstances of those who commission them. As such, both productionan...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ed. Mackenzie
2015
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Ciências da religião história e sociedade
Year: 2015, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 241-258 |
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Popular devotion
B Immigration B Ex-voto B Popular art B Border-crossing |
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| Summary: | Ex-voto paintings are the visual manifestation of popular religion and areobjects offered as votives of thanks to Christ or Virgin Mary. These paintingsprovide art historical, ethnographical and literary evidence of socio-economiccircumstances of those who commission them. As such, both productionand reception of ex-votos testify to the role of art in transnational social processes,such as immigration. The painful process of immigration producespoignant visual manifestations that address dislocation and oppression. Inthis paper I especially analyze the ex-votos of the Mexican immigrants andargue that the border crossings from Mexico to United States are materializedin the ex-votos of the Mexican immigrants who seek divine assistanceduring this dangerous endeavor and further life in the United States. |
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| ISSN: | 1980-9425 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ciências da religião história e sociedade
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