Thierry de Duve

Université Lille 3, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

September–December 2009

Thierry de Duve is professor at Université Lille 3, département des arts plastiques in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. He writes and teaches on modern and contemporary art. Committed to a reinterpretation of modernism, his work has long revolved around Marcel Duchamp's readymade and its implications for aesthetics. His publications include: Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade, with D. Polan (Minneapolis,1991); Clement Greenberg between the Lines, translated by Brian Holmes (Paris, 1996); Kant After Duchamp (Cambridge, 1998); and The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Cambridge, 1993).