Richard Read
Richard Read is Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow in art history in the UWA School of Design at the University of Western Australia. He has published in major journals on the relationship between literature and the visual arts, nineteenth and twentieth-century European and Australian art history, contemporary film, and complex images in global contexts. He wrote the first book on Adrian Stokes, Art and Its Discontents: the Early Life of Adrian Stokes (2003), which was joint winner of the AAANZ best book prize for 2003.Professor Read was Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bristol in 2010
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/sensory-perception-history-and-geology/FFD798BBD9CC5F3859DC797C696E2536
ABSTRACT: Abstract: Wiiliam Molyneux’s question to John Locke about whether
a blind man restored to sight could name the difference between
a cube and a sphere without touching them shaped fundamental
conflicts in philosophy, theology and science between empirical and
idealist answers that are radically alien to current ways of seeing and
feeling but were born of colonizing ambitions whose devastating
genocidal and ecocidal consequences intensify today. This Element
demonstrates how landscape paintings of unfamiliar terrains required
historical and geological subject matter to supply tactile associations
for empirical recognition of space, whereas idealism conferred
unmediated but no less coercive sensory access. Close visual and verbal
analysis using photographs of pictorial sites trace vividly different
responses to the question, from those of William Hazlitt and John
Ruskin in Britain to those of nineteenth-century authors and artists in
the United States and Australia, including Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Thomas Cole, William Haseltine, Fitz Henry Lane and Eugene von
Guérard.