Friday Talk - Reflections on shadows and light
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Description
View the exhibition In Light of Shadows and join Richard Read to closely observe and discuss the myriad stories conjured by the play of light and shadow in different cultures and within the visual arts.
Emeritus Professor Richard Read is an Associate Investigator in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and a Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the UWA School of Design. He has published numerous texts on the relationship between literature and the visual arts, Giotto, Rembrandt, nineteenth and twentieth century art and critical theory, and complex images in global contexts.
Campus Partner: ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
Enquiries: lwag@uwa.edu.au or 08 6488 3707
Image credit: Kalighat Hari-Hara 1880-1890. Calcutta, India. Watercolour and silver pigment on paper. R.M. & C.H. Berndt Estate, Berndt Museum [08735]