David Carrier
David Carrier is an American philosopher of art and cultural critic.
Education
Carrier received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University, where he was a student of Arthur Danto, in 1972. He was a Getty Scholar, a Clark Fellow, a Senior Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2006–2007 and holder of the Fulbright-Luce Lectureship, Spring 2009.Work
Carrier was the Champney Family Professor in the department of art and art history at Case Western Reserve University and was a professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Principles of Art History Writing, The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s, High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting, A World Art History and Its Objects, The Aesthetics of Comics, and Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries, and Wild Art with his partner Joachim Pissarro, among others. He is a contributor to Artforum, BOMB Magazine, and ArtUS.He has written about the history and philosophy of art writing, raising questions about the relativism of art writing in different eras by comparing texts written about the same artwork and analyzing changing styles of interpretation.
Books
- Truth and Falsity in Visual Images
- Artwriting
- Principles of Art History Writing
- Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology
- The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s
- Nicolas Poussin: Lettere sull'arte
- High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernism
- England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste
- Garner Tullis: The Life of Collaboration
- The Aesthetics of Comics
- Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism: From Formalism to Beyond Postmodernism
- Writing about Visual Art
- Sean Scully
- Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries
- A World Art History and Its Objects
- ''Proust/Warhol: Analytical Philosophy of Art''