Carrier received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University, where he was a student of Arthur Danto, in 1972. He was a Getty Scholar (1999–2000),[3] a Clark Fellow (2004),[4] a Senior Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2006–2007[5] and holder of the Fulbright-Luce Lectureship, Spring 2009.[6]
Carrier was the Champney Family Professor in the department of art and art history at Case Western Reserve University and was a professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Principles of Art History Writing (Penn State University Press, 1991), The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s (Penn State University Press, 1994), High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting (Penn State University Press, 1996), A World Art History and Its Objects (Penn State University Press, 2009), The Aesthetics of Comics (Penn State University Press, 2000), and Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries (Duke University Press, 2006), and Wild Art with his partner Joachim Pissarro (Phaidon Press), among others. He is a contributor to Artforum, BOMB Magazine,[7] and ArtUS.
He has written about the history and philosophy of art writing, raising questions about the relativism of art writing in different eras by comparing texts written about the same artwork and analyzing changing styles of interpretation.[8]
^ abcDavid Carrier, The Aesthetics of Comics, Penn State University Press, 2000, p. 1.
^ abMeskin, Aaron and Roy T. Cook (eds.), The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, p. xxix.
^Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities. "1999/2000: Humanities in Perspective". Getty Research Institute. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
^Gilmore, Jonathan (Winter 1995). "David Carrier's Art History". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 53 (1): 39–47. doi:10.2307/431735. JSTOR431735.
