by José Ortega y Gasset · Aguilar Ediciones, Colección El Libro Aguilar nº 3, 1987, Madrid. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788403870031
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«Velázquez» is the biographical essay by José Ortega y Gasset on Diego Velázquez, published by Aguilar Ediciones in hardback (348 pages, in Spanish).
Ortega y Gasset approaches the figure of Velázquez as a 'passer-by' before painting, delving into the work of the author of Las Meninas with a spirit of shared discovery. The essay explores concepts such as vocation, circumstance, chance and craft, and the rebellion against beauty.
Volume no. 3 of the El Libro Aguilar collection, within its Essay Section. The text first appeared in 1950 and this edition incorporates unpublished Ortega notes.
For those who want to understand the painter through the philosopher, with an approach that combines the aesthetic gaze and intellectual reflection.
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce."
