David Carrier
dxc89@case.edu
Champney Family Professor
Joint Appointment - CWRU/Cleveland Institute of Art
Ph.D. Columbia University
Dr. Carrier's CV
David Carrier, a former professor of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, has been Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Class of 1932 Fellow in Philosophy, Princeton University; a Getty Scholar; and a Clark Fellow. He has lectured in China, Europe, India, New Zealand and North America. His books include: Artwriting; Principles of Art History Writing (which has been translated into Chinese); 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; an edition in Italian of Poussin's letters; 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 the Comic Strip; Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism: from Formalism to beyond Postmodernism; Writing About Visual Art; Sean Scully; and Art and Its Metamorphoses: Museum Skepticism and the Modernist Public Art Museum (2006), which will be translated into Chinese.
David Carrier has lectured recently in Lithuania, Finland, New Jersey, New York City and Tokyo. In Spring, 2009 he will be a Fulbright-Luce Lecturer in Beijing, and will lecture also in Taiwan. His A WORLD ART HISTORY (Penn State) and PROUST/WARHOL (Peter Lang) are forthcoming in 2008. His projects in progress, not yet confirmed, include a book on Poussin (many of the essays have appeared), a book on Kant and modernism co-authored with Joachim Pissarro, and ABSTRACT ART SINCE 1945 (Phaidon). He has recently published catalogue essays for the Hugh Lane Museum, Dublin and the Joslyn, Omaha. Essays for other museums are forthcoming. He writes art criticism for ARTFORUM, ARTUS and the BURLINGTON MAGAZINE.
