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David Carrier

David Carrier is a philosopher who writes art criticism. His Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art and Lawrence Carroll (Bloomsbury) and with Joachim Pissarro, Aesthetics of the Margins/ The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained (Penn State University Press) were published in 2018. He is writing a book about the historic center of Naples, and with Pissarro he conducted a sequence of interviews with museum directors for Brooklyn Rail.

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An Artist’s Monument to the Monotony of Images

by David Carrier April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

Bayrle creates an art gallery version of computer reproductions of unreality. His art inhabits a world composed of repeated ready-made images.

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What Can We Learn From Italy’s Early Leftist Modernists?

by David Carrier March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

The artists in Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917 faced a real problem: how to represent injustices and project a hopeful vision of what changes were possible?

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Painting that Exhilarates the Eye and Mind

by David Carrier March 3, 2022April 1, 2022

It can be tempting to compare these historical Indian paintings with familiar examples from the Euro-American canon but that would do a disservice to these artworks, which are revelatory on their own.

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How Can Museums Break Away From White Privilege?

by David Carrier February 27, 2022February 25, 2022

Following cogent survey of the modern art museum’s history, The Art Museum in Modern Times turns to a challenging discussion of the present problems of modern museums.

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Philosophy of Aesthetics That’s Actually Fun to Read

by David Carrier February 3, 2022February 3, 2022

Lydia Goehr’s Red Sea–Red Square–Red Thread is so ambitious, so original, so detailed, and so poetic that it transcends mere commentary and becomes itself a distinguished contribution to philosophy.

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Boris Lurie’s Search for Historical Truth in Trauma

by David Carrier January 26, 2022January 27, 2022

What’s difficult, perhaps impossible, to show in art is the experience of what passes beyond all comprehension.

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The Magnificent Abstractions of Alma Thomas

by David Carrier January 12, 2022January 12, 2022

Thomas was a major artist who in her lifetime was unjustly denied the acclaim she merited. This show is a brave beginning.

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The Transcendent Power of Black in Norman Lewis’s Abstractions

by David Carrier January 5, 2022January 5, 2022

For Lewis, a first-generation Abstract Expressionist, working with black seemed to open up his art.

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A Philosopher-Painter for Troubled Times

by David Carrier December 30, 2021December 30, 2021

Judith Bernstein is a great artist whose boldly original paintings forcefully respond to the troubled life of our present culture.

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Rethinking Kandinsky

by David Carrier December 23, 2021December 23, 2021

The problem with many of Kandinsky’s abstractions is that they don’t offer enough immediate visual information to “crack” his expressive code for color and form.

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Does A Pairing With Warhol Do Marisol Any Favors?

by David Carrier December 9, 2021December 9, 2021

Does an attempt to lift up the art of Marisol backfire?

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Ron Gorchov’s Art of the Here and Now

by David Carrier October 28, 2021November 2, 2021

Gorchov is an artist whose best pieces are purely aesthetic and totally present, here and now.

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