David Carrier (; born 1944) is an American philosopher of art and

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Education

Carrier received a Ph.D. in philosophy from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, where he was a student of

Arthur Danto Arthur Coleman Danto (January 1, 1924 – October 25, 2013) was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University. He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for ''The Nation'' and for his work in philosophi ...

, in 1972. He was a Getty Scholar (1999–2000), a Clark Fellow (2004), 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'' (Penn State University Press, 1991), ''The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s'' (Penn State University Press, 1994), ''High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting'' (Penn State University Press, 1996), ''A World Art History and Its Objects'' (Penn State University Press, 2009), ''The Aesthetics of Comics'' (Penn State University Press, 2000), and ''Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries'' (Duke University Press, 2006), and ''Wild Art'' with his partner Joachim Pissarro (Phaidon Press), among others. He is a contributor to ''

Artforum ''Artforum'' is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art. The magazine is distinguished from other magazines by its unique 10½ x 10½ inch square format, with each cover often devoted to the work of an artist. Notabl ...

'', ''

BOMB Magazine ''Bomb'' (stylized in all caps as ''BOMB'') is an American arts magazine edited by artists and writers, published quarterly in print and daily online. It is composed primarily of interviews between creative people working in a variety of disciplin ...

'', 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'' (with Mark Roskill) (University of Massachusetts Press, 1983) *''Artwriting'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1987) *''Principles of Art History Writing'' (Penn State University Press, 1991) *''Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology'' (Penn State University Press, 1993) *''The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s'' (Penn State University Press, 1994) *''Nicolas Poussin: Lettere sull'arte'' (Editor, with an introduction; Hestia edizione, 1995) *''High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernism'' (Penn State University Press, 1996) *''England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste'' (Routledge, 1998) *''Garner Tullis: The Life of Collaboration'' (Garner Tullis, 1998) *''The Aesthetics of Comics'' (Penn State University Press, 2000) *''Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism: From Formalism to Beyond Postmodernism'' (Praeger, 2002) *''Writing about Visual Art (Aesthetics Today)'' (Allworth Press, 2003) *''Sean Scully'' (Thames & Hudson, 2004) *''Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries'' (Duke University Press, 2006) *''A World Art History and Its Objects'' (Penn State University Press, 2009) *''Proust/Warhol: Analytical Philosophy of Art'' (Peter Lang, 2009)

References

External links

Official website
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