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David Carrier

David Carrier’s most recent books are Art Writing Online: The State of the Art World and Philosophical Skepticism as the Subject of Art: Maria Bussmann’s Drawings. His book In Caravaggio’s Shadow: Naples as a Work of Art is forthcoming. 

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Adrian Piper in Her Own Words

by David Carrier November 10, 2018November 16, 2018

Piper is the rare artist whose practice is informed by her skills as a philosopher.

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René Magritte’s Bad Paintings

by David Carrier November 3, 2018November 2, 2018

When Belgium was occupied by Germany during World War II, René Magritte adopted the style of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and painted images based on popular cartoons.

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What Do Art Critics Actually Do?

by David Carrier October 20, 2018October 19, 2018

Artists, collectors, curators, and dealers are all needed for the system to function, but the role of critics is up for grabs.

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The Importance of Being Delacroix

by David Carrier September 29, 2018September 28, 2018

The last great artist who was not a modernist, Delacroix synthesized very complex visual and verbal traditions in stunning works that open the way to modernism.

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Connoisseurship Is Not a Dirty Word

by David Carrier September 2, 2018August 31, 2018

Connoisseurship, it is often said, is elitist, Euro-centric, and logo-centric, to employ the fashionable jargon.

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Who Really Owns the Elgin Marbles?

by David Carrier August 4, 2018August 3, 2018

However we judge Lord Elgin’s original acquisition of the Parthenon sculptures, it’s easy to wonder whether the Turkish rulers legitimately had the right to allow him to dispose of these artworks.

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The Art of a Fired Cartoonist

by David Carrier July 21, 2018July 20, 2018

What if we interpret Rob Rogers’s wild art cartoons as if they were conventional subjects for art writing?

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The Divergence of Art and Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum

by David Carrier July 14, 2018July 13, 2018

Presenting contemporary garments alongside Byzantine and Medieval artworks underlines the visual differences between the two genres of objects.

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Sweet, Gritty, Impossible Naples

by David Carrier July 8, 2018July 7, 2018

The other great centers of the Italian art world – Florence, Rome, and Venice – have modernized; Naples mostly has not.

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