DAVID CARRIER has been a Getty scholar, a Clark Fellow and a senior fellow at the National Humanities Center. More recently, he has taught in Beijing on a Fulbright-Luce Fellowship. His most recent books are PROUST/WARHOL: ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY OF ART and A WORLD ART HISTORY AND ITS OBJECTS, both 2008. His books in progress include ABSTRACTION SINCE 1945 (Prestel) and with Joachim Pissarro, KANT AND MODERNISM.