About the Author

David Carrier is Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. His previous titles published by Penn State Press are Principles of Art History Writing (1991), Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology (1993), and The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s (1994).

Reviews

"David Carrier brings together the two disciplines of art writing and philosophy and uses one to illuminate and deepen the understanding of the other in an organic cyclical exchange that seems to have no limits. With his ambitious writing he has built a domain outside narrow thinking, where horizons are wide and open, as befits an authentic explorer."

-Sean Scully