Charles Green is Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Melbourne in the Art History department, within the School of Culture and Communication. He has written Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-94 (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995),The Third Hand: Artist Collaborations from Conceptualism to Postmodernism (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2001), and (with Anthony Gardner) Biennials, Triennials, and documenta (Boston, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). He was Australian correspondent forArtforum for many years. He is also an artist: Lyndell Brown and Charles Green have worked together as one artist since 1989. They were Australia’s Official War Artists in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007-08.