Thierry de Duve explained

Thierry de Duve (born 1944) is a Belgian professor of modern art theory and contemporary art theory, and both teaches and publishes books in the field. He is an art critic and curates exhibitions.^[1]

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 the Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor at New York University for the fall semester of 2013.^[2] He was the 2015 Theorist in Residence for the CalArts MA in Aesthetics and Politics Program during the fall semester. In 2016, he was appointed Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor and Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York.^[3]

He has also been a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on four separate occasions since 1995.^{[1] [4]}

He is the son of Christian de Duve, Nobel Prize winner for his discovery of lysosomes.^{[5] [6]}

Curating

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

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.)
• "The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp", MIT Press, Cambridge, 1993.
• "Clement Greenberg Between the Lines" Trans. Brian Holmes; Editions Dis Voir, 1996
• "Kant After Duchamp", Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998, 484 p. (hard : alk. paper)
• "Bernd and Hilla Becher", Munich: Schirmer Art Books, 1999, 159 p.
• "Roni Horn", Louise Neri, Lynne Cooke, Thierry De Duve, London : Phaidon, 2000, (br.)
• "Look, 100 Years of Contemporary Art" (trans. Simon Pleasance and Fronza Woods; Ghent-Amsterdam: Ludion, 2001
• "Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx" (trans. Rosalind E. Kraus; Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012, (Cloth)

Books Published in original language:

• 1984 "Nominalisme pictural: Marcel Duchamp, la peinture et la modernité" Minuit, Paris, 1984.
• 1987 "Essais datés I, 1974–1986" Ed. de la différence, Paris, 1987. 341 pp.
• 1989 "Au nom de l'art. Pour une archéologie de la modernité" Minuit, Paris, 1989.
• 1989 "Résonnances du readymade. Duchamp entre avant-garde et tradition" J. Chambon, 1989. 301 pp. . Hachette littérature, 2006, 287 pp.
• 1990 "Cousus de fil d'or. Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp" Villeurbanne, Art édition, 1990.
• 1991 "The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp ", (proceedings of the M.D. colloquium in Halifax, October 1987), Cambridge, editor, MIT Press, Mass.1991, 488 pp.
• 1992 "Faire école" Les Presses du Réel, Paris, 1992. "Faire école (ou la refaire ?)", édition revue et augmentée, Les Presses du Réel, Paris, 2008.
• 1995 "La Déposition" Dis Voir, Paris, 1995.
• 1995 "Du nom au nous" Dis Voir, Paris, 1995 124 pp.
• 1996 "Clément Greenberg entre les Lignes" Dis Voir, Paris, 1996.
• 1996 "Kant after Duchamp ", Cambridge, MIT Press, Mass., 1996, 484 pp.
• 2000 "Voici, 100 ans d'art contemporain" Ludion, Gand, 2000, 303 pp. . Réédition augmentée, Gand, Ludion, 2001, 320 pp. .
• 2003 "Sylvie Eyberg / Valérie Mannaerts" (cat. exp. du pavillon belge à la Biennale de Venise, bil. fr.-angl.), Bruxelles, Yves Gevaert, 2003, 200 pp.
• 2003 "Lichaam / Beeld / Vlees", Bruxelles, editor Yves Gevaert, 2003, 200 pp.
• 2003 "Vlees / Huid / Kleur", Gand, editor, Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst, 2004, 202 pp.
• 2005 "Kleur / Blik / Ding", Gand, editor, Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst, 2005, 258 pp.

Books Published in original language, together:

• 2004 "La peinture de Manet", Michel Foucault; suivi de "Michel Foucault, un regard", ss. dir. Maryvonne Saison : Dominique Chateau, Thierry de Duve, Claude Imbert. Seuil, Paris, 2004. 176 pp.
• "Jeff Wall" Thierry de Duve, Arielle Pélenc, Boris Groys, Jean-François Chevrier, Phaidon, Collection: Artistes contemporains, 2006. 212 pp.
• "L'art sans sujet ?" Marie-Claire Ropars, Mauro Carbone, Michel Costantini, Thierry de Duve. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, Paris, 2008, 168 pp.
• "Jeff Wall - L'édition complète" Mark Lewis, Thierry de Duve, Boris Groys, Jean-François Chevrier, Phaidon, 2010, 278 pp.

External links

• Thierry de Duve page
• Archives de la critique d'art Thierry de Duve
• Thierry de Duve faculty page, Hunter College Department of Art and Art History

Notes and References

1. Web site: Thierry de Duve . https://web.archive.org/web/20230922073157/https://www.macp.sva.edu/thierry-de-duve . 22 September 2023 . live . Curatorial Practice . School of Visual Arts . 19 June 2024.
2. Web site: Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor . https://web.archive.org/web/20200622163545/http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/people/faculty/varnedoe.htm . 22 June 2020 . Institute of Fine Arts . . dead . 19 June 2024.
3. Web site: Thierry De Duve Joins the Department of Art And Art History . https://web.archive.org/web/20170215111755/http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/thierry-de-duve-joins-department-of-art-and-art-history/ . 15 February 2017 . dead . Hunter College . California College of the Arts . 19 June 2024.
4. Web site: Thierry de Duve Curriculum Vitae . July 2017 . Hunter College of Art . City University of New York.
5. News: Christian de Duve, scientist and Nobel laureate; at 95 . subscription . Denise . Gellene . . 7 May 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240619233900/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2013/05/06/christian-duve-belgian-scientist-awarded-nobel-dies/Sbjo2oh5vcCuZNDrcuz8VP/story.html . 19 June 2024 . live.
6. News: Christian de Duve Obituary . . . 12 May 2013.