Books by David Carrier

Artist Sean Scully and Art Critic David Carrier in Conversation

Examines art that stands outside the margins of the art world, the critical and cultural conditions that made this exclusion possible, and how recognizing this radically transforms our understanding of contemporary art.

The great poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also an extremely influential art critic. "High Art" relates the philosophical issues posed by Baudelaire's art writing to the theory and practice of modernist and postmodernist painting.

A study of England and its aesthetes. The essayists are John Ruskin, Walter Pater and Adrian Stokes. David Carter provides the commentary, and writes of these three aesthetes' concern with "perception as a way of knowing".

Traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion.