Thierry de Duve (born 1944) is a

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professor of

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theory and

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theory, and both teaches and publishes books in the field. He is an art critic and curates exhibitions. He has been a visiting professor at the

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(France), the

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(France),

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, and

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, and was the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Distinguished Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art in Penn's History of Art Department. He was the 2015 Theorist in Residence for the

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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

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. He has also been a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the

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in Washington, D.C. He is the son of

Christian de Duve Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisome and lysosome, for which he shared ...

, Nobel Prize winner for his discovery of lysosomes.

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",

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, 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 Roni Horn (born September 25, 1955) is an American visual artist and writer. The granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she was born in New York City, where she lives and works. She is currently represented by Xavier Hufkens in Brussels an ...

", Louise Neri, Lynne Cooke, Thierry De Duve, London : Phaidon, 2000, (br.) * "Look, 100 Years of Contemporary Art" (trans. Simon Pleasance and Fronza Woods; Ghent-Amstersam: 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 Mauro Carbone (born 8 December 1956) is an Italian philosopher. Since 2009, he has been a full professor at the Faculté de Philosophie of the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in Lyon, France. From 2012 to 2017, he has been a senior member of the In ...

, 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.

References

External links

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