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The Phantom Image - Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
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The Phantom Image - Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
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How could something as insubstantial as a ghost be made visible
through the material grit of stone and paint? In this original and
wide-ranging study, Patrick R. Crowley uses the figure of the ghost
to offer a new understanding of the status of the image in Roman
art and visual culture. Tracing the shifting practices and debates
in antiquity about the nature of vision and representation, Crowley
shows how images of ghosts make visible structures of beholding and
strategies of depiction. Yet the figure of the ghost simultaneously
contributes to a broader conceptual history that accounts for how
modalities of belief emerged and developed in antiquity. Neither
illustrations of ancient beliefs in ghosts nor depictions of the
afterlife more generally, these images ultimately show us something
about the visual event of seeing itself. The Phantom Image will be
essential for anyone interested in ancient art, visual culture, and
the history of the image.
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