June 2009
Monday, 6/1
Tuesday, 6/2
Wednesday, 6/3
Thursday, 6/4
Tony Green recording for PennSound.
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Tony Green was born in London on April 26, 1936. He received his MA in English Literature from Cambridge University, and then earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Art History from the Courtault Institute of Art and a Ph.D in Fine Arts from the University of Edinburgh. Since 1960, Green has worked as an Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Edinburgh. From 1969 to 1998, he was a Professor of Art History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand's largest and top ranked university. Green has had his poetry published in numerous print and online magazines, and has also written many essays and reviews on New Zealand art. He is the founder editor of Bulletin of New Zealand Art History and was a co-editor of Splash for two years. His published works include Londonettes and underground reading (1978), Doe Oxide and other reflections (1978), Untold angel (1979), Software (1986), No place to go (1997), and Nicolas Poussin paints the Seven Sacraments twice (2000). Green currently works as a freelance art curator and writer in New Zealand.