Born in Madrid on 24 November 1940, Bozal graduated with a degree in philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid and worked as a secondary school teacher before returning to teach at his alma mater in 1969. In 1974, he became a professor of contemporary and modern philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
In 1962, Bozal began publishing in journals and magazines, primarily on philosophy in the modern movement in the magazine Artes [es].[3] He published his first work on realism at the Editorial Ciencia Nueva [es], which was affiliated with the Communist Party of Spain. He was also an ideologue of the Equipo Comunicación, where he published his ideas on capitalism and communism, and their impact on modern art and architecture.
Once the Francoist regime fell, Bozal directed the Communist Party of Spain's magazine, Nuestra bandera. In 1987, he became director of La balsa de la medusa, where he published theses on the works of Immanuel Kant. He also wrote about 20th century art in Spain, as well as the likes of Piero della Francesca, Johannes Vermeer, and Francisco Goya. In 2020, he received the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts.[4] He was also a member of several societies, such as the Sociedad Española de Filosofía, the European Society of Culture and the Asociación Española de Críticos de Arte.[5]
Valeriano Bozal died in Madrid on 2 July 2023, at the age of 82.[6]
