Writer, art critic and curator, or conservator, exhibition, José Jiménez is Doctor of Philosophy and Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Autonomous University of Madrid. His books include: The fallen angel. The artistic image of the angel in the contemporary world (1982, 2nd ed .: 2007); The aesthetic and anthropological utopia. Bloch and Marcuse (1983); Philosophy and Emancipation (1984); Images of man. Foundations of Aesthetics (1986); Life as random. Complexity of the modern (1989); Body and time. The image of metamorphosis (1993); (1996); Theory of Art (2002); editing the Writings of Marcel Duchamp (2012), and Criticism in action. Texts and speeches on art and contemporary Spanish artists (in press).