Thierry de Duve
Thierry de Duve (born 1944 in Saint-Trond, Belgium) is an art historian, philosopher and curator. He has taught art history and aesthetics at the University of Lille III, and has been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, MIT and Johns Hopkins University.
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
forthcoming
In this essay, Thierry de Duve leaves the aesthetics and history of the art to approach, under the religious prism, two anthropological questions that the mutation of the symbolic order in progress makes pressing: the difference of the sexes and the future of the politics of emancipation.
2023
French edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
In this essay, Thierry de Duve leaves the aesthetics and history of the art to approach, under the religious prism, two anthropological questions that the mutation of the symbolic order in progress makes pressing: the difference of the sexes and the future of the politics of emancipation.
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
A second volume of essays by Thierry de Duve dedicated to the form of speech known as the address. Along with theoretical texts, the authors addresses prestigious interlocutors (Jacques-Alain Miller, Benjamin Buchloh, Marie-José Mondzain, Jean Clair, Jean-François Lyotard, Herman Parret, Mieke Bal, Daniel Arasse).
2014
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Thierry de Duve's writings on Marcel Duchamp.
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
sold out
An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.
1996
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
A rereading of the work of the famous and controversial art critic.
1995
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
The critical importance of the theme of “designation” in arts and its gradual emergence in the thinking of Thierry de Duve since 1985.
1995
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
An analysis of an installation by Sylvie Blocher.