Publications
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Paraskos M, 2024, Barfrestone, Publisher: Orage Press, ISBN: 9781999368098
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 to think so, but does the Sale of Goods Act even apply to contracts with the Lord of Darkness?And is making the victim into an eminent art historian ever going to be an adequate good-will gesture for the mistake?More to the point, what has any of this to do with Barfrestone church in Kent and is this still art history?This edition includes the Art-Art History Manifesto.
Paraskos M, 2023, Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form, History of Education, ISSN: 0046-760X
Paraskos M, 2020, Review of bauhaus goes west: modern art and design in britain and america, by alan powers, History of Education, Vol: 49, Pages: 425-426, ISSN: 0046-760X
Paraskos M, 2019, Herbert Read: The Eye of the Storm, Insiders/Outsiders Refugees from Nazi Europe and Their Contribution to British Visual Culture, Editors: Bohm-Duchen, Publisher: Lund Humphries, Pages: 181-186, ISBN: 9781848223462
At a time when the issue of immigration is much debated, the book serves as a reminder of the importance of cultural cross-fertilization and of the deep, long-lasting, and wide-ranging contribution that refugees make to British life.
Bohm-Duchen M, 2019, Insiders/Outsiders Refugees from Nazi Europe and Their Contribution to British Visual Culture, ISBN: 9781848223462
At a time when the issue of immigration is much debated, the book serves as a reminder of the importance of cultural cross-fertilization and of the deep, long-lasting, and wide-ranging contribution that refugees make to British life.
Paraskos M, 2017, Obituary: Benedict Read (1945–2016), Burlington Magazine, Vol: 159, Pages: 396-396, ISSN: 0007-6287
Paraskos M, 2017, Stass Paraskos A Celebration: at Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture, ISBN: 9780995713017
Catalogue with essay to accompany the exhibition Stass Paraskos: A Celebration, held at the Pafos Municipal Art Gallery, March 2017
Paraskos M, 2016, In Search of Sixpence, ISBN: 9780992924782
Overwhelmed by feelings of anger, guilt and loss, Michael finds himself descending into a kind of madness in which the boundaries between fact and fiction break down.
Paraskos M, 2015, Brides for Sale, WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, Vol: 44, Pages: 1200-1203, ISSN: 0049-7878
Paraskos M, 2015, Four Essays on Art and Anarchism, ISBN: 9780992924799
But, as Michael Paraskos suggests in the course of these essays, there is an argument to be made that anarchist ideas are at the heart of all acts of artistic creation.
Paraskos M, 2015, A Voice in the Wilderness: Stass Paraskos and the Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus Dossier, ISSN: 1986-3179
Paraskos M, 2015, The art schools of Kent: a complete history, HISTORY OF EDUCATION, Vol: 44, Pages: 128-130, ISSN: 0046-760X
Paraskos M, 2015, Mirror in the Bathroom: New Paintings by Clive Head, Publisher: Orage Press, ISBN: 9780992924751
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 Head's ambition to create paintings that exist as an alternative reality to our own plunges the viewer into a parallel universe every bit as strange and exciting as that dreamed up by Lewis Carroll. In doing so, Paraskos suggests, Head has enabled painting to follow the other arts in finally grasping the full implications of the concept of mise en abyme, theorised by the influential French critic Roland Barthes, while still producing images that are deeply compelling.
Paraskos M, 2014, Bringing into being: vivifying sculpture through touch, Sculpture and Touch, Editors: Dent, Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., ISBN: 9781409412311
This book introduces a new impetus to the discussion of the relationship between touch and sculpture by setting up a dialogue between art historians and individuals who are working in disciplines beyond art history.
Paraskos M, 2014, Herbert Read Art and Idealism, ISBN: 9780992924720
In this highly readable text Dr Michael Paraskos explains how Read understood idealist theories and how he hybridised them with his anarchist political beliefs to create a uniquely Readian form of anarchist cultural theory.
Paraskos M, 2013, Scarborough Realists Now, Publisher: Orage Press, ISBN: 9780956580245
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 case) the exhibition was a deliberate attack on the mainstream metropolitan art world, dominated at the time by neo-conceptual artists and critics who were actively hostile to painting. Against this they succeeded in staging a seminal exhibition of radical contemporary realist painting. As the critic Michael Paraskos argues in a new essay, written to accompany this reissue of the original catalogue, the Scarborough exhibition was intended to celebrate realist painting: but the artists were also looking beyond the realist agenda, foreseeing a time when realist painting itself, and particularly Photorealist painting, would also seem dull, mainstream and in need of revitalisation. Drawing on anarchist art theory, Paraskos explains that whilst each of the artists was producing realist art at the time of the show as a necessary act of resistance against conceptualism, realism and Photorealism were never seen as the ultimate goal. Already these artists were developing individual agendas for their work that would take them beyond realism.
Orage A, 2013, Friedrich Nietzsche: The Dionysian Spirit of the Agc, Publisher: Orage Press, ISBN: 9780956580252
Alfred Orage was one of the most significant figures in the modernist art and literary world of early twentieth century Britain. As co-founder of the Leeds Arts Club in 1903 he helped to introduce European modernism to Britain, and this continued as he became the editor of the most widely read art and literary journal of the time, The New Age. Friedrich Nietzsche was central to Orage's thinking, and in this little book he sought to introduce the German philosopher to a sometimes skeptical British public. Yet in doing so he placed his own spin on Nietzsche's work, forming a view of Nietzsche that was to influence a generation of art and literary figures, including Herbert Read and Clement Greenberg.
Paraskos M, 2012, What would an anarchist Rembrandt look like?, Sanat Dünyamız, ISSN: 1300-2740
Paraskos M, 2010, Regeneration, ISBN: 9780956580207
In Regeneration Paraskos puts forward an argument for an aesthetic framework for art which does not look back to the academic aesthetics of previous centuries, but is rooted in the physical and material nature of how artists actually make ...
Paraskos M, 2010, Exactitude: hyperrealist art today by john Russell Taylor and Maggie Bollaert, The Art Book, Vol: 17, Pages: 48-50, ISSN: 1368-6267
Paraskos M, 2010, Clive Head, Publisher: Lund Humphries Pub Limited, ISBN: 9781848220621
This is the first full-length monograph on his work and sets out to introduce it to a wider audience.
Paraskos M, 2009, Is Your Artwork Really Necessary? Collected Art Criticism, ISBN: 9780954452360
"Collection of essays, articles, and reviews, written for newspapers and magazines including Review and the Epoch Times"-- P. 4 of cover.
Paraskos M, 2008, Steve Whitehead, Publisher: Orage Press, ISBN: 9780992924744
First published in 2008, Dr Michael Paraskos's book on the British painter Steven Whitehead is one of the classic texts on post-photorealist painting. Here Paraskos establishes the principles of post-photorealist painting as taking the American photorealist tradition as a starting point and then enhancing that tradition through use of influences from the wider history and theory of art. In doing so Paraskos shows that although photography might be the starting point for post-photorealist art, the simple emulation of photography in paint is never enough for true painting. Whitehead is the ideal exemplar for this. His work is certainly rooted in the history of photorealist art, but he hybridises a deep understanding of the American photorealist tradition with other realist and non-realist art forms, including nineteenth-century Biedermeier painting and romanticism, and twentieth-century Surrealism and magic realism to produce poetic images that move well away from the historic definition of ordinary photorealism. As Paraskos shows, because of this, Whitehead's paintings depict worlds that are simultaneously familiar and uncanny, but always poetic and strangely beautiful.
Paraskos M, Read B, Antliff A, et al., 2008, Rereading Read: New Views on Herbert Read, Publisher: Freedom Press, ISBN: 9781904491088
From poverty and a Yorkshire orphanage, Herbert Read went on to become the most significant cultural critic to come out of England in the twentieth century.Between 1940 and 1960 he was the most well-respected writer on modernist art in the English language, effectively defining the movement during that period. He was a major art theorist and writer on literature, and a key figure in anarchist politics.He was a leading figure in many Eureopan art movements, including Constructivism and Surrealism, and was one of the first English writers to embrace the Existentialist theories of Jean-Paul Sartre. Remarkably Read was once accused by the leading English modernist, Percy Wyndham Lewis, of being too radical in his artistic tastes.Read was also a notable poet of the First World War, and in later years helped to found numerous art organisations, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. And yet, after his death in 1968, he became an almost forgotten figure in art and cultural studies, eclipsed by later figures such as Clement Greenberg and Raymond Williams.In this book sixteen of the world's leading writers on modernist cultural history look at Read's work again, focusing on his anarchist political beliefs, his work on art and literature, and his own creative writings. They place him in the context of twentieth century cultural life, and offer startling explanations for his neglect by later writers on modernism.The book is very well illustrated in full colour, with images of works by many of the artists Read championed.
, 2007, Reviews, Sculpture Journal, Vol: 16, Pages: 108-117, ISSN: 1366-2724
Paraskos M, 2007, Herbert Read's Dilemma: Some Fatherly Advice from Ford Madox Ford, Ford Madox Ford's Literary Contacts, Publisher: Rodopi, ISBN: 9789042022485
Ford has been described as 'a writer's writer'. This volume reveals how true that has been, and in how many ways, as it sheds new light on his relationships with other writers, both familiar and surprising.
Paraskos M, 2006, What good are the Arts?, The Art Book, Vol: 13, Pages: 47-48, ISSN: 1368-6267
, 2005, Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, Publisher: Routledge
Paraskos M, 2000, What has Devolution to do with Art History?, The Art Book, Vol: 7, Pages: 18-19, ISSN: 1368-6267
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