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Columbia University.
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David Carrier
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He 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 a contributor to ArtForum, BOMB Magazine, 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. Carrier received a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Columbia University, where he was a student of Arthur Danto, in 1972.
He was a Getty Scholar (1999–2000), a Clark Fellow (2004), a Senior Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2006-2007 and holder of the Fulbright-Luce Lectureship, Spring 2009.
