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The phantom image : seeing the dead in ancient Rome
Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fresh and wide-ranging study, he uses the figure of...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago
: The University of Chicago Press
, 2020
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| Series: | Chicago scholarship online
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226648323.001.0001/upso-9780226648293 |
| Author Notes: | Patrick R. Crowley |
| E-Book Packages: | Oxford University Press : University Press Scholarship Online / Archaeology |
| Summary: | Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fresh and wide-ranging study, he 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 |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2019 Includes bibliographical references and index Zielgruppe: Specialized |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| ISBN: | 9780226648323 |
