Although he denied being an artist himself, he was a full participant and catalyst in the Art and Language group.
[1] Charles Harrison was educated at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London from 1961 to 1967.
Charles Harrison became a member of the Art & Language artist group in 1971 and was an editor of Art-Language.
As a member of Art & Language, Charles Harrison was a exhibitor at Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with the Project Index 0001 in the Idea + Idea / Light department, together with Art & Language member Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Ian Burn, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell, Mel Ramsden and Joseph Kosuth.
"[3] On the value of art "[V]ividness in representation must entail the reconciliation of technical concerns for expressive form and surface on the one hand with the requirements of realistic description on the other...the more the activity of art tends toward the pursuit of the one at the expense of the other, the smaller the value is to be attached to either.