David Carrier
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Western Reserve University
10900
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Cleveland, OH 44106-7110
U.S.A.
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216-368-4118
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216-368-4681
Email: dxc89@pop.cwru.edu
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David Carrier is a 1999-2000 Getty scholar. A well-known art critic,
he has published books on the philosophy of art history, abstract
painting, Poussin's paintings, Baudelaire's art criticism and the
comic strip. He is also a professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon
University, where he has been a department member since 1973. He
received his doctorate from Columbia University. He specializes in
Aesthetics, Art Criticism, and the History of Art. Carrier describes
his work thus: "In the 1980s, art historians began to take a new
interest in the methodology
of their discipline. They started to recognize that interpretation of
pictures unavoidably involved the personality of the historian. Nor was it
possible, as some commentators earlier had hoped, to understand artworks in
essentially apolitical terms.
"My own work as a philosopher writing about art history, and writing art
criticism, has always been concerned with these issues, central ones for
present day art writing. Literary scholars have devoted much attention to
the study of narrative structures. My concern has been to apply a similar
approach to writing about visual artworks. We art critics, familiar with the
rapid changes in artistic styles found in the American artwork during the
past three decades, expect that innovation in techniques of commentary also
will be called for. In art history, the situation is somewhat different, for
tradition is much more well entrenched. Much of the most challenging recent
art history borrows from criticism this awareness of the need for radical
conceptual innovation." More
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