Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details
Michael Paraskos
E’mail and website:
mparaskos@mac.com
www.michaelparaskos.net
Higher Education
1998 - 2005
University of Nottingham Dept. Art History
PhD Thesis Title: ‘The Elephant and the Beetles: the Æsthetic Theories of Herbert
Read’
1995- 1997
University of Leeds
MA by Research - School of Fine Art Thesis Title ‘English Expressionism’
1989 - 1992
University of Leeds Schs. English and Fine Art
BA ( Hons ) English - Literature and Art History
Employment
2005 - current
Art correspondent The Epoch Times (London edition)
2007 - current
Director Cyprus College of Art and Provost of the Cornaro Institute
2006 - 2007
University of Leeds and HMI, Henry Moore Fellow in Sculpture Studies
1995 - 2001
University of Hull, Head of Art History for Fine Art
1995 - current
Visiting lecturer at Bradford College, Norwich School of Art, Christchurch
University,
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Dublin Institute of
Technology, Leeds
Metropolitan University, University College for Creative
Arts, Canterbury, and others.
Select list of conferences, public Lecture and publications
2012 Essay, ‘Bringing into Being: Vivifying Sculpture Through Touch’, in Peter Dent (ed.) Sculpture
and Touch, (Aldershot: Ashgate) forthcoming
2011 Conference paper: ‘Art and Emotional Containment’, The Emotions in History, Memory and
Storytelling at the University of Brighton
2011 Conference: ‘Finding yourself in Henry Mooreshire’ Moore/Hepworth: A Collaborative
Conference at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
2011 Public lecture: ‘The New Aesthetics’, at the University of Miami
2010 Author: Clive Head (London: Lund Humphries)
2010 Author: Regeneration (London: Orage Press)
2009 Various entries for The Biographical Dictionary of British Sculptors, edited by Ingrid Roscoe
(New Haven:
Yale University Press)
2009 Author: Is Your Artwork Really Necessary? (London: Orage Press)
2009 Essay, ‘Me thn eukairija’, in Mimochodem (By the Way), (Brno: Masaryk University Press)
2008 Author: The Table Top Schools of Art (London: Orage Press)
2008 Chairman for discussion ‘Art - Aristocrat or democrat?’ at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2008 Conference Paper, ‘Bringing into Being: Vivifying Sculpture through Touch’, Sculpture and
Touch
Conference, Courtauld Institute, London, May 2008
2008 Book: Steve Whitehead: Realist Painter (London: Orage Press)
2007 Editor of and contributor to a major new book, Re-Reading Read: New Views on Herbert Read
(London,
Freedom Press)
2007 Article, ‘Herbert Read and Ford Madox Ford’, in International Ford Madox Ford Studies (vol.6)
2007 Article, ‘The Anarchists’ for art magazine Arteri
2007 Article entitled ‘Time for a declaration of independence’, in The Sunday Mail.
2007 Review of Brandon Taylor (ed.), Sculpture and Psychoanalysis (Aldershot: Ashgate) for The
Sculpture Journal
2006 Review of Frank Brangwyn, exhibition at Leeds City Art Galleries, for Front Row, BBC Radio 4
2006 Catalogue essay on Jennifer Harding and Geoff Rigden at the Kypriaki Gonia Gallery, Cyprus;
also related article, ‘Here and Now: the Art of Jennifer Harding and Geoff Rigden’ in Seven Magazine..
2006 Review of John Carey’s What Good Are the Arts? for The Art Book
2006 Article, ‘Was Manifesta a CIA Plot?’ in ArtCyprus, no.2
2006 Essay, ‘The Curse of King Bomba: Or How Marxism Stole Modernism’, in Hana Babayradova
and Jiri
Havilcek (eds.), Spiritualita (Brno: Masaryk University Press)
2006 Article, ‘Portait of the Artist as a Terrorist’, in ArtCyprus, no.1
2005 Essay, ‘The Prick of Conscience Leatherette Sofa’, in Pippa Hale (ed.), Pipa Hale at the Patrick
Studios, Leeds
(Leeds: ESA)
2004 Organiser and Convener of the conference: ‘The Herbert Read Conference’, at Tate Britain,
London
2003 Various entries for The Encyclopaedia of Sculpture, edited by Antonia Bostrom (London,
Routledge)
2003 New Introduction to Herbert Read, Naked Warriors (London, Imperial War Museum
Publications)
2002 Chapter on Herbert Read in Chris Murray (ed.) Key Thinkers on Art (London, Routledge)
2002 New introduction to Herbert Read, To Hell with Culture (London, Routledge)