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  • Stass Paraskos
    Michael Paraskos
    Stass Paraskos: Critical Frameworks re-examines one of Cyprus’s most significant modern artists through a fresh theoretical lens.Drawing on Hayden White’s theory of emplotment and post-colonial theory, including the writings of Rasheed Araeen, Homi K. Bhabha, Stuart Hall and Edward Said, this book challenges long-standing assumptions about Paraskos as a ’peasant painter’ or nai...
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    15,94 €

  • Pygmalion 2
    Michael Paraskos
    Pygmalion 2 is an occasional publication intended to start a real and meaningful debate as to the nature, purpose and future of carving in the twenty-first century. This is a period when we see not only the continuation of a long-term decline in demand for hand carving skills, but the increased replacement, including by some heritage bodies, of those skills by laser-guided cutt...
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    10,35 €

  • Barfrestone
    Michael Paraskos
    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 ...
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    16,54 €

  • Pygmalion 1
    Michael Paraskos
    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 only the continuation of a long-term decline in demand for hand carving skills, but the increased replacement, including by some heritag...
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    10,54 €

  • Stass Paraskos
    Michael Paraskos
    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 up an art student at Leeds College of Art. Following a notorious trial, after Paraskos was arrested and charged under the Vagrancy Act...
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    14,87 €

  • In Search of Sixpence
    Michael Paraskos
    A murderous Nazi-sympathiser on the loose, a dead father who has left a mystery to solve and a lost love all mix in this contemporary classic of anarchist literture. Overwhelmed by feelings of anger, guilt and loss at the death of his father, we are taken on a journey into a kind of madness in which the boundaries between fact and fiction break down. In a terrifying alternative...
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    14,88 €

  • Four Essays on Art and Anarchism
    Michael Paraskos
    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 sympathies with anarchist ideas. But, as Michael Paraskos suggests in the course of these essays, there is an argument to be made that an...
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    8,23 €

  • Mirror in the Bathroom
    Michael Paraskos
    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 ever...
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    9,70 €

  • Herbert Read
    Michael Paraskos
    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 foes alike as the 'Pope of Modern Art.' As a broadcaster on the BBC and a prolific writer Read was a well known public figure, but h...
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    11,45 €

  • Scarborough Realists Now
    Michael Paraskos
    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 artis...
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    13,51 €

  • The Aphorisms of Irsee
    Clive Head / Michael Paraskos
    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, southern Germany.Sometimes controversial, often funny, the aphorisms are designed to challenge our understanding of art by defining its e...
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    11,43 €