Paraskos, Michael
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Birth Date
- 1969
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- Affiliation Start: 1994
- Affiliation End: 2000
- Organization: University of Hull
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- Affiliation Start: 2000
- Organization: Cornaro Art Institute
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- Organization: Leeds Art Collections Fund
Birth Place
- Leeds (England)
Associated Locale
- West Norwood (London, England)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(lcgft) Art--History
(lcgft) Anarchism and art
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- found: Leeds, the Barnsley of the north, 2004:t.p. (by Michael Paraskos) p. 9 (co-founder, New Leeds Arts Club)
- found: Paraskos, Stass. The mythology of Cyprus, 2016:title page verso (Michael Paraskos) page iii (son of Stass Paraskos and a novelist living in London)
- found: Wikipedia, October 17, 2016(Michael Paraskos, FRSA (born 1969, Leeds, Yorkshire) is a novelist, lecturer and writer on art, and is the son of the Cypriot artist Stass Paraskos; one of the world's leading authorities on the British modernist art critic Herbert Read, and he is also known for his wider theories connecting anarchism and modern art; lives in West Norwood in south London; in 1991 he established with Ben Read the New Leeds Arts Club, an art society in Leeds based on the original Leeds Arts Club (1903-1923), and became a committee member of the Leeds Art Collections Fund; after teaching at various colleges and universities, and for the WEA, Paraskos became head of Art History for Fine Art at the University of Hull from 1994 to 2000. In 2000 he became Director of the Cornaro Institute in Larnaca, Cyprus, part of the Cyprus College of Art; works include Herbert Read: Art and Idealism (2014) in which he explores the ideas of the British anarchist art theorist Herbert Read and Four Essays on Art and Anarchism (2015); has also written monographs on the British artists Steve Whitehead (2007) and Clive Head (2010))
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Change Notes
- 2004-10-12: new
- 2016-10-18: revised
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