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Charles Green

Professor
Culture And Communication
contemporary art
australian art
art theory and criticism
arts & humanities
art
fine arts (incl. sculpture and painting) ; the creative arts
war art
photography
visual arts and crafts
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
Art practice
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Charles Green.

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The war at home: art describes Australia's turbulent present (SRI200200052)

2020 - 2024
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The war at home: art describes Australia's turbulent present (SRI200200052)

2020 - 2024
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ART IN CONFLICT: TRANSFORMING CONTEMPORARY ART AT AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL

This project aims to investigate conflicts and compromises arising within official schemes for commissioning Australian contemporary war art..

2018 - 2021
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The underworld: outsider artists and the reformulation of Australian art

This project aims to produce an understanding of outsider artists, their lives, their histories, and the socio-historic context in which the..

2018 - 2021
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World-Pictures: Path-Finding Across a Century of Wars, 1917-2017

This project aims to redefine war art in artistic and scholarly research. Public understandings of war are significantly shaped by war art a..

2017 - 2020
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World-Pictures: Path-Finding Across a Century of Wars, 1917-2017

This project aims to redefine war art in artistic and scholarly research. Public understandings of war are significantly shaped by war art a..

2017 - 2020
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Mega-Exhibitions: Biennales, Triennales and Documentas, 1950-2010

Biennales have offered a dramatically expanded global audience the chance to see contemporary art's boom in recent decades. There is no scho..

2011 - 2016
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War and Peace: How and Why Contemporary Conflict and its Aftermath is Framed by War Art

Building on all three applicants' recent, unique track records as Australia's Official War Artists, we will record the aftermath of conflict..

2011 - 2015
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War and Peace: How and Why Contemporary Conflict and its Aftermath is Framed by War Art

Building on all three applicants' recent, unique track records as Australia's Official War Artists, we will record the aftermath of conflict..

2011 - 2015
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THE ATLAS PARADIGM IN ART FROM WARBURG TO VIDEO INSTALLATION

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Projects

Project Types

8

Research Grant

3

Internal Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Charles Green.

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Notes on the Centre: Two Decades of American Painting in Australia, 1967

Charles Green

Journal article  |  2019  |  Tate Papers

In 1967 the exhibition Two Decades of American Painting, organised by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, travelled to Sydney and ..

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Afterstorm: Turbulence, Conflict and the Garden of Remediation

Charles Green, Lyndell Green, Jon Cattapan, Paul Gough

Original Creative Work - Visual Art Work  |  2019

Gardens have offered refuge as places of rehabilitation and healing. The plants growing within have figured as talismans of home, ..

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The Far Country

Charles Green, Lyndell Green

Original Creative Work - Visual Art Work  |  2019

In these fifteen new works, images from different contexts and timeframes—sourced from the artists’ encounters with museums and res..

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What’s so special about the Mona Lisa

Charles Green, Susan Broomhall

Journal article  |  2019  |  The Conversation

Every day, thousands of people from around the world crowd into a stark, beige room at Paris’s Louvre Museum to view its single mo..

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Between the Moon and the Stars

Charles Green, Lyndell Green

Original Creative Work - Visual Art Work  |  2019

Between the Moon and the Stars considers the common impulse to find meaning in the night sky. Bringing together Aboriginal and non..

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Clear Light Dark Times

Charles Green

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Lyndell Brown and Charles Green: 100 Years of Turbulence

Charles Green, Lyndell Green

Original Creative Work - Visual Art Work  |  2019

The work is made up of old photographs, historical snapshots and drawings that seem to be randomly scattered, but when seen altoge..

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Outsider Art in Australia: Artists' Voices versus Art-world Mythologies

Anthony White, Anna Parlane, Grace McQuilten, Charles Green

Journal article  |  2019  |  Art and Australia

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Civilization: The Way We Live Now

Charles Green, Lyndell Green

Original Creative Work - Visual Art Work  |  2019

Charles Green – ‘We were embedded with Australian soldiers in Afghanistan as Australia’s official war artists in 2007-2008. We wer..

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No Agency: Iraq and Afghanistan at War. The Perspective of Commissioned War Artists

Charles Green, Lyndell Green

Book Chapter  |  2019

In 2007, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, who have worked as one artist in collaboration since 1989, were commissioned by the Aust..

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Keyword Analysis

Arts and Leisure
Visual Arts and Crafts
Art Theory and Criticism
Other Arts
Communication
Cultural Studies
Understanding Past Societies
Cinema, Electronic Arts and Multimedia
Curatorial and Related Studies
Heritage

News

Displaying the 2 most recent news articles by Charles Green.

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What's so special about the Mona Lisa?

Charles Green

June 11, 2019
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Q and A with Professor Charles Green, Artist and Art Scholar

Charles Green

August 26, 2015

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2004

Bangladesh Biennale, Dacca, Bangladesh
2013

Australia India Artist Retreat, Jaipur, India

2011

Australia India Artist Retreat, Red Hill, Victoria

2009

Harn Distinguished Scholar, University of Florida

2008

Visiting Fellow, School of Humanities and Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin

2007

Australian Official Artist, Australian War Memorial. Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

2002

“Horizons” Parks Victoria Residency (co-researcher Lyndell Brown; residential research fellowship)

1998

Gunnery Studio Research Residency, Sydney. (co-researcher Lyndell Brown)

1997

Asialink/Sanskriti Residency, Delhi (co-researcher Lyndell Brown)

1995

Power Institute Studio, Cité des Arts, Paris (co-researcher Lyndell Brown)

1993

Visiting Fellow, Visual and Performing Arts, University of Western Sydney Nepean (co-researcher Lyndell Brown)

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor

Culture And Communication

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Master of Arts (Visual Arts)

Monash University

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)

Victorian College of the Arts

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