Thierry de Duve

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 is an art critic and 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.

In 2010 he teaches art history and esthetic in the University of Lille III.

For him there is no difference between modern, post-modern and contemporary art: the same logic rules from the beginning. Art has no essence; it is what we call by that name.

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. ISBN 0262041510 (hard : alk. paper)
• "Bernd and Hilla Becher", Munich: Schirmer Art Books, 1999, 159 p. ISBN 3888144000
• "Roni Horn", Louise Neri, Lynne Cooke, Thierry De Duve, London : Phaidon, 2000, ISBN 0714838659 (br.)
• "Look, 100 Years of Contemporary Art" (trans. Simon Pleasance and Fronza Woods; Ghent-Amstersam: Ludion, 2001

Books Published in original language:

• 1984 "Nominalisme pictural: Marcel Duchamp, la peinture et la modernité" Minuit, Paris, 1984. ISBN 2707306878
• 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. ISBN 2707312819
• 1989 "Résonnances du readymade. Duchamp entre avant-garde et tradition" J. Chambon, 1989. 301 pp. ISBN 2877111903. Hachette littérature, 2006, 287 pp. ISBN 9055443158
• 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. ISBN 0262041170
• 1992 "Faire école" Les Presses du Réel, Paris, 1992. "Faire école (ou la refaire ?)", édition revue et augmentée, Les Presses du Réel, Paris, 2008. ISBN 9782840662280
• 1995 "La Déposition" Dis Voir, Paris, 1995. ISBN 2906571466
• 1995 "Du nom au nous" Dis Voir, Paris, 1995 124 pp. ISBN 2906571490
• 1996 "Clément Greenberg entre les Lignes" Dis Voir, Paris, 1996. ISBN 2906571458
• 1996 "Kant after Duchamp ", Cambridge, MIT Press, Mass., 1996, 484 pp.
• 2000 "Voici, 100 ans d'art contemporain" Ludion, Gand, 2000, 303 pp. ISBN 9055443158. Réédition augmentée, Gand, Ludion, 2001, 320 pp. ISBN 9055443670.
• 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. ISBN 2020585375
• "Jeff Wall" Thierry de Duve, Arielle Pélenc, Boris Groys, Jean-François Chevrier, Phaidon, Collection: Artistes contemporains, 2006. 212 pp. ISBN 0714896756
• "L'art sans sujet ?" Marie-Claire Ropars, Mauro Carbone, Michel Costantini, Thierry de Duve. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, Paris, 2008, 168 pp. ISBN 9782842922061
• "Jeff Wall - L'édition complète" Mark Lewis, Thierry de Duve, Boris Groys, Jean-François Chevrier, Phaidon, 2010, 278 pp. ISBN 9780714859088

External links

• Thierry de Duve page
• Archives de la critique d'art Thierry de Duve