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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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The Moral Complexity of War Games

by David Carrier June 27, 2020November 5, 2020

An-My Lê is a Vietnamese-born photographer who has portrayed — and participated in — re-enactments of the Vietnam War.

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The Prophecies of Deborah Kass

by David Carrier June 13, 2020November 5, 2020

What can we say about an image that understood Trump’s root persona early on, and froze it in time?

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Talking About Art Now

by David Carrier May 30, 2020May 29, 2020

What comes after postmodernism is less interesting than the changed nature of the art system and art writing.

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The Work of Art in the Age of the Internet

by David Carrier May 16, 2020May 18, 2020

How will the internet transform the way that contemporary visual art is created?

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When Philosophy and Art Intersect

by David Carrier May 2, 2020May 1, 2020

Maria Bussmann’s elusive drawings acknowledge the impossibility of fixing philosophical terms in imagery, like bugs in amber.

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The Quality of Mercy, From Caravaggio to Conceptual Art

by David Carrier April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

Like art, morality persists despite dramatic cultural transformations.

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When a Square Is Not Just a Square

by David Carrier April 4, 2020April 4, 2020

Like his best works, Sean Scully’s “Black Square” is oddly exhilarating, especially because it is initially grim.

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When Disaster Can’t Be Pictured

by David Carrier March 21, 2020March 20, 2020

To represent the world is to understand it, and to understand it might, hopefully, help cope with a plague.

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A Close, Dazzling Look at Michelangelo’s Painting

by David Carrier March 14, 2020March 13, 2020

Leo Steinberg’s compelling essays pull you into the interpretative process, asking you to see the drama he unpacks.

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Color Field, Then and Now

by David Carrier March 7, 2020March 7, 2020

I fear that the visual culture in which these works were admired is now one of those distant “you had to be there” moments, which are impossible to reconstruct.

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Sculpting With Light, Drawing With Shadow

by David Carrier February 29, 2020February 28, 2020

It’s hard to identify precedents for Christopher Wilmarth’s sculpture, which uses its banal modern materials purely abstractly.

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Taking Appropriation Too Far

by David Carrier February 22, 2020February 21, 2020

To manipulate the historical record, I would think, is to abandon the search for truth.

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