Medialab Prado

is a professor of the History of Contemporary Art at the Fine Arts School at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His publications include the editing, prologue, and notes to the book by Ángel González, El resto. Una historia invisible del arte contemporáneo (Madrid-Bilbao, 2000), winner of the 2001 Premio Nacional de Ensayo (National Essay Award). After writing his dissertation on the uses of art during the French Revolution, his work has focused on several issues. One is finding a way to see after the disintegration of formal concepts inherited from the Renaissance. Another is the political condition of images in modern times and how behaviours and customs from that period regarding art live on, hampering its insertion in history. He has studied these problems from different angles including the relationship between Buñuel and surrealism, Ramón y Cajal’s scientific drawings, the images that flamenco’s identity is built on, and Marcel Duchamp's secret vindication of painting.