The Phantom Image
Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome
Seiten
2019
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-64829-3 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-64829-3 (ISBN)
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.
Patrick R. Crowley is assistant professor of art history at the University of Chicago.
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.12.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, unspecified |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-64829-X / 022664829X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-64829-3 / 9780226648293 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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