(Málaga, 1948- Madrid, 2009)
He was one of the most relevant figures in Spanish intellectual life, art historian and critic, essayist and writer who knew how to reveal with lucidity and imagination the hidden and symbolic aspects contained in the aesthetic creations of both the primitive past and the most radical avant-garde bets. . He addressed studies of iconography and theory of architecture, of imaginary and fantastic constructions, of ideal buildings, of the problems of the modern movement, of the visual metaphors of mass culture,... from a profile that is not excessively canonical and even wayward, freeing the humanistic discipline from any reductive form. He carried out intense teaching and research work as Professor of Art History at the Autonomous University of Madrid with study interludes in other national and international centers (The Warburg Institute in London in the 1979-80 academic year, at Columbia University in New York as a "visiting scholar" during the 1982-83 academic year, in Paris in 1988-89, at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities to research for a year at its headquarters in Santa Monica, in Los Angeles in 1991-92) . Ramírez's bibliographical production is extensive, driven by an insatiable intellectual curiosity. It is worth highlighting his doctoral thesis History and aesthetics of comics in Spain, 1939-1970 (1975), Architecture in cinema. Hollywood, the golden age (1986), God the architect: JB Villalpando and the temple of Solomon (1991), Duchamp. Love and Death, Even (1993), The Beehive Metaphor. From Gaudí to Le Corbussier (1998), Corpus solus (2003) and Body-buildings. Human body and architecture: analogies, metaphors, derivations (2003). Among the numerous distinctions he received are the City of Barcelona Essay Prize, the Special Prize of the Espais Jury for Art Criticism and the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Prize of the Junta de Andalucía.
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