Michael Paraskos - Böcker

A collection of essays to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of the artist Stass Paraskos. Born into a peasant family in Cyprus in 1933, Paraskos went to England to work as a waiter in a Greek restaurant. There he met a group of artists from Lee...

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Michael Paraskos is one of the new generation of art critics who are redefining the way we make and see art in the twenty-first century. He is a leading figure in the New Aesthetics movement, an informal grouping of artists and writers who emphasi...

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The Aphorisms of Irsee is a collection of definitive statements on the nature of art by the artist Clive Head and the writer Michael Paraskos. The aphorisms were formulated whilst Head and Paraskos were teaching at a summer art camp in Irsee, sout...

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In 2008 four artists and an art critic gathered together in the northern English seaside town of Scarborough to stage an exhibition that would challenge the dominant mainstream British art world. Entitled 'scarborough realists now' (note the lower...

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Herbert Read was one of the most influential art and literary theorists of modernism active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is frequently credited with bringing modern art and modernism to a wide public and was dubbed by friends and...

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Clive Head is the leading figurative painter of his generation working in Britain today. In this introduction to his recent work Michael Paraskos discusses the various influences on Head as a painter, ranging from Titian to Matisse. He argues that...

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Ο Στας Παράσκος (1933-2014), γεννημένος στην Αναφωτία της...

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As an art critic he had often written that the purpose of art is to soothe the pain of life. But his theory faces a real-life test with a death, that of his father, the celebrated artist Stass. Overwhelmed by feelings of anger, guilt and loss, Mic...

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The relationship between art and anarchism has a long but often hidden history. Artists as diverse as Courbet, Pissarro, Signac, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Gris, and many others, have been positively identified as being anarchist, or having symp...

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Born in Cyprus 1933 Stass Paraskos is one of the most significant artists to have emerged from Cyprus in the twentieth century. Born into poverty, he emigrated to England in 1953, settling in the city of Leeds, where he almost accidentally ended u...

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Selected papers from the first seven Othello's Island Conferences held in Nicosia, Cyprus on medieval and early modern studies, held at the Centre for Visual Arts and Research (CVAR) annually between 2013 and 2019. Edited by Jane Chick of the Univ...

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Accidentally locked in a church cupboard for twenty years, it's hardly surprising the 'poor devil', Titivillus, had missed a few things. But was he really to blame for screwing up payment on a contract for a human soul? His intended victim seems t...

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Pygmalion 1 is an attempt to start something essential to the future of carving. It is an attempt to start a real and meaningful debate as to the nature, purpose and future of carving in the twenty-first century. This is a time when we see not onl...

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Accidentally locked in a church cupboard for twenty years, it's hardly surprising the 'poor devil', Titivillus, had missed a few things. But was he really to blame for screwing up payment on a contract for a human soul? His intended victim seems t...

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