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. 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 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. 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. He is the son of Christian de Duve, 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", 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-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