num_pages: 216
description: This 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.
language: English
title: Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States
titlecomplete: Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States
genres: Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 17
publisher: University of Arizona Press