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 ...

These paintings were at once aesthetic extensions of his previous work and departures. His subject matter and the mood of the paintings had shifted away from some of his earlier work which was ...

Even if art carries a political element, though, exclaiming that “all art is political” isn’t likely to make it any better. In fact, an overemphasis on the details of daily politics will ...

If the presidential campaign is political theater, then emotional categories of aesthetic experiences can be used to frame current events.

Despite the many aesthetic, technical, and political problems in the field of Iranian mural painting, it seems that lessons are gradually being learned.

Aesthetics and Politics at the New Museum’s Triennial “Songs for Sabotage” risks being sabotaged by a willful naïveté, but individual artists transcend the show’s mandate.

Says non-political Artist Merida: “Painting makes its own politics, the artist doesn’t need to mind politics. It is the land that speaks through my canvases, whether they are representative or ...

JOHN HOUSE Impressionism: Paint and Politics New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 63 color ills., 117 b/w. $50.00 JOACHIM PISSARRO Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro, ...

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 ...