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About the product Why is Saint Christopher depicted on icons with a dog’s head? Why does the Mother of God need three hands and a fish tail? How did Pushkin, Stalin and the football players end up on the icon? The most unusual icons will cease to be a mystery in the new book of the famous popularizer of science, cultural anthropologist Sergei Zotov. Abstract Why is Saint Christopher depicted with a dog’s head? Why does the Mother of God need three hands and a fish tail? How did Pushkin, Stalin and the football players end up on the icon? «Iconographic Lawlessness» is a book about how the most unusual plots of Russian icons appeared and what they really mean. She will talk about the six-armed Christ, the Orthodox centaur and the dove with four heads. You will immerse yourself in mystical images, where human life is presented as a labyrinth, mysterious hands sprout from the crucifix, and many eyes are looking at the viewer. See violent scenes in which saints and even Jesus himself take up arms. You will understand how laptops, soccer balls and nuclear reactors appeared on sacred images. Together with the author, you will unravel the meaning of the mysterious allegories, take excursions into theology and world history, learn about the most incredible Russian conspiracies and beliefs, see the rarest icons previously available only to specialists. But the main thing is that after reading this book, the familiar culture and history will unfold before you from a completely new and unknown side. Sergei Zotov is a cultural anthropologist, winner of the Enlightener Prize for the book The Suffering Middle Ages. Paradoxes of Christian Iconography, doctoral student at the University of Warwick (Great Britain). Creator of the popular blog about unusual icons «Iconographic Lawlessness», from where the idea of this book was born. …
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