26 March 2015
Bilbao Campus
The University of Deusto has published the fourth edition of Juan Plazaola’s Modelos y Teorías de la Historia del Arte, a book that aims to raise awareness among university readers and make them understand the most important and socially accepted points of view that have been recognised lately by researchers and scholars in the field of human culture. His work is based on the assumption that the human quality of works of art overrules the intention to find a single method which makes it possible to penetrate the mystery of the work and the secret mechanisms of its development.
The history of plastic arts, strictly speaking, was not created till the end of the eighteenth century. Nevertheless, throughout the last two hundred years, all the educated countries have recognised its role in comprehensive education. The human quality that artwork encloses, and consequently the educational importance of its history, and the knowledge of the evolution of its styles in terms of human expression in different eras and civilisations, have generated a wide variety of ways of approaching artwork.
Juan Plazaola holds PhDs from the University of Paris (Arts) and the Complutense University of Madrid (Philosophy). Professor of Aesthetics and Art History, he held a number of academic positions both at the University of Deusto and the Society of Jesus. He was also the President of Ignacio de Loyola Institute at the University of Deusto’s San Sebastian campus. He is the cofounder of the journal Reseña and founding editor in chief of the journal Mundaiz. He published nearly twenty works, as well as articles and other studies which mark a life of dedication to the study and research of aesthetics and art. A member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary (Seville), he was awarded the Eusko Ikaskuntza Humanities Prize in 1998.
