Wizerunek nieoczywisty
A non-obvious effigy

Summary/Abstract: Review of Anna Niedźwiedź’s book Obraz i postać. Znaczenia wizerunku Matki Boskiej Częstochowskiej [‘The Image and the Figure. The meanings of the effigy of Our Lady of Częstochowa’] (Wydawnictwo UJ [Jagiellonian University Press], Kraków 2005). The presently reviewed work is a doctoral thesis, published as volume 14 in the Jagiellonian University Press’s Anthropos series, devoted to publications in anthropology of culture. The book’s author sets an objective for herself to reconstruct events having accrued around Poland’s most praised (and most frequently reproduced) piece of painting, i.e. the image of Our Lady of Częstochowa, as mentioned in the book’s title. The reviewer highlights and discusses the threads being most significant for the paper’s anthropological and cultural context.

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