Valeriano Bozal Explained

Valeriano Bozal
Birth Name:Valeriano Bozal Fernández
Birth Date:1940 11, df=y
Birth Place:Madrid, Spain
Death Place:Madrid, Spain
Nationality:Spanish
Occupation:Historian
Philosopher
Education:Complutense University of Madrid

Valeriano Bozal Fernández (24 November 1940 – 2 July 2023) was a Spanish historian and philosopher.[1] He was a participant in the collaborative project .[2]

Biography

Born in Madrid on 24 November 1940, Bozal graduated with a degree in philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid and worked as a secondary school teacher before returning to teach at his alma mater in 1969. In 1974, he became a professor of contemporary and modern philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

In 1962, Bozal began publishing in journals and magazines, primarily on philosophy in the modern movement in the magazine .[3] He published his first work on realism at the, which was affiliated with the Communist Party of Spain. He was also an ideologue of the Equipo Comunicación, where he published his ideas on capitalism and communism, and their impact on modern art and architecture.

Once the Francoist regime fell, Bozal directed the Communist Party of Spain's magazine, Nuestra bandera. In 1987, he became director of La balsa de la medusa, where he published theses on the works of Immanuel Kant. He also wrote about 20th century art in Spain, as well as the likes of Piero della Francesca, Johannes Vermeer, and Francisco Goya. In 2020, he received the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts.[4] He was also a member of several societies, such as the Sociedad Española de Filosofía, the European Society of Culture and the Asociación Española de Críticos de Arte.[5]

Valeriano Bozal died in Madrid on 2 July 2023, at the age of 82.[6]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Valeriano Bozal Fernández 1940-2023. filosofia.org. Spanish.
  2. Web site: Autores y colaboradores. Museo del Prado. Spanish. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091221145734/http://www.museodelprado.es/enciclopedia/indice/autores-y-colaboradores/. 21 December 2009.
  3. Book: Díaz Sánchez. Julián. Llorente. Ángel. 2004. La crítica de arte en España (1939-1976). Spanish. 508-510. Madrid. Ediciones Akal. 9788470904400.
  4. Web site: Real Decreto 1197/2020, de 29 de diciembre, por el que se concede la Medalla al Mérito en las Bellas Artes, en su categoría de oro, a las personas y entidades que se relacionan.. Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado. Spanish.
  5. Web site: Valeriano Bozal Fernández. Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Catalan.
  6. News: Cedillo. J.. 2 July 2023. Muere Valeriano Bozal, reputado historiador y crítico de arte, a los 82 años. Spanish. El Español. 10 July 2023.