Emeritus Professor Richard Read

Richard Read is Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, Perth. He wrote the first book on the psychoanalytic art critic Adrian Stokes and published extensively on the relationship between literature and the visual arts, and complex images in global contexts. Recent books include Colonization, Wilderness and Other Spaces co-edited with Kenneth Haltman (Terra Foundation for American Art, 2020; Yale E-Portal 2022) and Sensory Perception, History and Geology: the Afterlife of Molyneux’s Question in Nineteenth-century Landscape Painting and Cultural Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2023).