{"product_id":"the-phantom-image-patrick-r-crowley-9780226648293","title":"The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome","description":"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. 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 afterlife, these images show us something about the visual event of seeing itself. \u003ci\u003eThe Phantom Image\u003c\/i\u003e offers essential insight into ancient art, visual culture, and the history of the image. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick R. Crowley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022664829X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226648293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 2.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2020","brand":"Patrick R. Crowley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086421176575,"sku":"9780226648293","price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_79002fed-6390-416a-a407-27107add28ae.jpg?v=1769094578","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-phantom-image-patrick-r-crowley-9780226648293","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}