Antonio Rivera García is Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts in the Department of Philosophy and Society at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he is currently its director. He is also co-director since 2010 of Res Publica. Journal of the History of Political Ideas. He is currently a director of Grupo ucm research project "Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Politics and Society". His research has focused on the history of political ideas and concepts and contemporary aesthetics, with particular attention to image theory. His latest book is The cruelty of images. Aesthetics and politics of cinema (2022). Madrid: Guillermo Escolar Editor, 744 pp.

Reseñas críticas

Photography and the other. Body and aesthetics of return

Diego Lizarazo, 2022 Gobierno de México-Subsecretaría de Cultura, Mexico, 164 pp.

The "aesthetics of return" or the force of otherness of photography

  • Antonio Rivera García

Diego Lizarazo's "Photography and the Other" explores the relationship between photography and otherness, proposing an "aesthetic of return" where the photographic image recovers the disappeared as a force of otherness, analyzing works that transform trauma into a healing memory and act of resistance.