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Richard Read Editor & Author

Richard Read is emeritus professor of art history and senior honorary research fellow at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Art and Its Discontents: the Early Life of Adrian Stokes. Kenneth Haltman is H. Russell Pitman Professor of art history at the University of Oklahoma. He has published critical translations of works by French phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, and his publications include Looking Close and Seeing Far: Samuel Seymour, Titian Ramsay Peale, and the Art of the Long Expedition, 1818–1823; Titian Peale’s Butterflies of North America; and a critical edition and translation from the French of The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting