Several of the objects on display originally belonged to monks or nuns, who inevitably lived in communal institutions, and there is also a good selection of painted
ex-votos, left by grateful individuals at shrines.
Once I'd acclimated myself by way of these less directly visceral works, I found myself able to confront the grosser three-dimensional manifestations of Hawkins's chosen defilements with more equanimity, and realized that these icons or
ex-votos of cruelty had a power commensurate with their crudity.
A serie aqui trabalhada e composta por imagens em preto e branco de tres modelos negros: uma mulher, um homem e uma crianca, alem de imagens de
ex-votos. Trabalho menos visivel da obra fotografica produzida por Maureen Bisilliat, veio a publico na primeira grande exposicao da artista, realizada em 1966 no Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo (Brasil).
Desanctified crucifixes, reliquaries, retables and
ex-votos, iconically displayed as precious commodities, provided further evidence, if such was needed, of the relentless commodification of cultural objects that events like Frieze serve up to an insatiable market.
There are six chapters: northeast Brazil: the largest area of poverty in South America; into the field; the social functions of
ex-votos;
ex-votos: aesthetics and forms; pilgrims and politics; conclusions.
O primeiro capitulo da parte pratica revela como, do espanto provocado pela riqueza da documentacao da Mesa da Consciencia e Ordens entre 1808 e 1828 - documentacao que, podemos supor, poderia se prestar a objeto de uma historia- narracao -, Guilherme Pereira das Neves chegou a uma historia-problema, despertado pelo exemplo dos
ex-votos com que se deparou, por acaso, no Museu da Arquidiocese de Olinda.
ex-votos: votive offerings to a saint as the sign of fulfilment of a
He is editor of the social science journal Italian American Review; Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives (2011); Sacred Emblems, Community Signs: Historic Flags and Religious Banners from Italian Williamsburg, Brooklyn (2003); co-editor of Graces Received: Painted and Metal
Ex-votos from Italy (2012); poet Vincenzo Ancona's Malidittu la lingua/Damned Language (1990; 2010), and Mediated Ethnicity: New Italian-American Cinema (2010); and author of R.I.P.: Memorial Wall Art (1994; 2002).
Although the book seems to have been written with an undergraduate audience in mind (which would explain the rather rudimentary definitions of hagiography, relics,
ex-votos, and the like), even more advanced scholars will find something to appreciate in Saints Alive.