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Claire Roberts

Associate Professor - Art History And Curatorship
Culture And Communication
Primary interest
ian fairweather
china
australian art
photography
art
australia
biography
letters
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Claire Roberts

 
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
Cultural flows between Australia and China
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Projects

Displaying the 2 most recent projects by Claire Roberts.

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Reconfiguring the World: China. Art. Agency, 1900s to Now

This research project will use modern and contemporary Chinese art to understand intercultural communication in the 21st century. It will do..

2015 - 2020
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Reconfiguring the World: China. Art. Agency, 1900s to Now

This research project will use modern and contemporary Chinese art to understand intercultural communication in the 21st century. It will do..

2015 - 2020
Active

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Projects

Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Claire Roberts.

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Fairweather

Claire Roberts

Recorded or Rendered Work - Other  |  2020

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Introduction

Claire Roberts, John Thompson

Book Chapter  |  2019

A self-portrait by one of Australia’s greatest artists, a man mistakenly portrayed as a hermit

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Ian Fairweather: A Life in Letters

John Thompson

Book  |  2019

When he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on Bribie Island, Queensland, Ian Fairweather..

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Melbourne Mandarins: ‘Modern Chinese Painters’, 1974

Claire Roberts

Book Chapter  |  2019

The first of its kind, this book-length interdisciplinary study of Chinese soft diplomacy in Australasia will be invaluable to stu..

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Ian Fairweather: Life Lines

Claire Roberts

Journal article  |  2019  |  Artlines (QAGOMA)

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Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue (肖鲁: 语嘿)

Claire Roberts, M Tai, H Xu

Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2019

Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue 肖鲁:语嘿 is the first retrospective of leading contemporary Chinese artist Xiao Lu. The exhibition is an..

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The Morrisons of Peking: Living History

C Roberts

Journal article  |  2018  |  Modern Asian Studies Review

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Ian Fairweather: The Drunken Buddha

C Roberts

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art

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Huang Zhuan 1958-2016

C ROBERTS

Journal article  |  2017  |  Art Monthly Australia

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Chinese Ideas of Likeness: Photography, Painting and Intermediality

C ROBERTS

Book Chapter  |  2017

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Keyword Analysis

Art Theory and Criticism
Communication
Expanding Knowledge
Arts and Leisure
Understanding Past Societies
Historical Studies

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

1984

Wyselaskie Scholarship in Modern Languages

The University of Melbourne
1984

Dwight Final Examination Prize for Combined Honours

The University of Melbourne
1983

R. G. Wilson Scholarship in Chinese, Final Examination

The University of Melbourne
2015

FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor - Art History And Curatorship

Culture And Communication

Supplemenatry Committee Member, Australia

Comite International d’Histoire de L’Art (CIHA), Australia

Education

PhD in Chinese history

The Australian National University

Master of Arts in the Department of Fine Arts and East Asian Studies

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts (Hons)

University of Melbourne

Certificate of Chinese Painting

Central Academy of Fine Art

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