Thierry de Duve

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Thierry de Duve (born 1944) is a Belgian professor of modern art theory and contemporary art theory, and both actively teaches and publishes books in the field. He also curates exhibitions.

He has been a visiting professor at: the University of Lille III (France), the Sorbonne (France), MIT, and Johns Hopkins University, and was the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Distinguished Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art in Penn's History of Art Department.

He was a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

[edit] Curating

  • Look-100 Years of Contemporary Art (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 2002)
  • Belgium Pavilion for the Venice Biennial (2003)

[edit] Bibliography

Books Published in English:

  • Pictorial Nominalism; On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991). (with Polan, D.)
  • Clement Greenberg Between the Lines (Trans. Brian Holmes; Editions Dis Voir, 1996)
  • Kant After Duchamp (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998)
  • Look, 100 Years of Contemporary Art (trans. Simon Pleasance and Fronza Woods; Ghent-Amstersam: Ludion, 2001
  • The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1993.

Books Published in French:

  • Resonances du Readymade. Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, 1989.