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ART HISTORY AND ART

 

David Carrier

In 2001, David Carrier was appointed the Champney Family Professor at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1972. He has been Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Class of 1932 Fellow in Philosophy at Princeton University, and in 1999-2000, was a Getty Scholar. He has been a visitor in the Department of Art History (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and a visiting lecturer at the National Academy of Art (Hangzhou, China).

David Carrier's books include Artwriting (Amherst, 1987); Principles of Art History Writing (University Park and London, 1991); Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology (University Park and London, 1993); The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s (University Park and London, 1994); Nicolas Poussin. Lettere sull'arte (Hestia edizione, 1995); High Art. Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernism (University Park and London, 1996); England and its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste (Gordon and Breach, 1997); Garner Tullis. The Life of Collaboration (New York, 1998); The Aesthetics of the Comic Strip (University Park and London, 2000). His Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism: from Formalism to beyond Postmodernism (Greenwood/Praeger, 2002) is forthcoming. He currently is completing two books, The Art of Artwriting (Allworth Press, 2002) and Sean Scully (Thames and Hudson, 2003). And his book in progress is The Philosophy of the Art Museum .

David Carrier has given more than ninety lectures since 1976 at philosophy, art and art history departments, and art history and philosophy conventions in the US, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, and China. And he has curated exhibitions in New York City and Pittsburgh. Since 1975, he has published more than 180 book reviews in art journals and philosophy journals, and more than 120 art reviews. He has published art criticism in such journals as Arts , Art in America , Artforum , ArtInternational , Burlington Magazine , Kunst Chronik , Modern Painters , and Tema Celeste . And he has published numerous exhibition catalogues for museums and commercial galleries.