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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. As well as reviewing exhibitions for BBC Radio 4, he has written several non-fiction and fiction books and essays, and articles on art, literature, culture and politics for various publications including ''Art Review,'' ''The Epoch Times'' and ''The Spectator'' magazine. He has taught in universities and colleges and curated several exhibitions. He is 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.〔http://www.anarchist-studies-network.org.uk/documents/ASN%202.0%20FINAL%20Programme.pdf〕 He lives in West Norwood in south London. ==Education and employment== After leaving school aged 16 Paraskos became a trainee butcher at a Keymarkets supermarket, but after six months of handling fresh meat left, becoming a lifelong vegetarian in the process, to return to formal education. He went on to attend the University of Leeds and University of Nottingham, studying at Nottingham with Fintan Cullen to gain his doctorate on the aesthetic theories of Herbert Read in 2005. 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. There he oversaw the first accreditation of various art education programmes at the Institute, and helped to create a significant arts, education and cultural centre in Larnaca. However, following the financial crisis in Cyprus in 2013 the Cornaro Institute was no longer financially viable and it closed in May 2014, resulting in Paraskos refocusing his work on his activities in London. In London Paraskos works as a writer and lecturer. He was art correspondent for the London edition of the Epoch Times newspaper until March 2012 when he stopped writing for the newspaper in protest at its new policy of only covering "traditional art".〔(End of an Epoch: Why I no longer write for the Epoch Times by Michael Paraskos )〕 He has also appeared on the BBC Radio programme Front Row as a reviewer of art exhibitions. He was Henry Moore Fellow in Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Foundation in 2007–08. In 2009 he was asked to join the judging panel for the Marsh Award for Public Sculpture, an annual award organised by the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA) for the best public sculpture of the year in Britain or Ireland. He is due to leave the Marsh panel in 2016. He was previously also Research Fellow for Harlow Art Trust. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2011. In 2014 he became a Programme Officer in the Department of Archaeology and Art History at SOAS, University of London, and he also lectures on art history at City and Guilds of London Art School, Morley College and Imperial College London. His first fiction work, a novel entitled ''In Search of Sixpence,'' will be published in 2016.〔Michael Paraskos, ''In Search of Sixpence'' (London: Friction Fiction, 2016) (External Link )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Paraskos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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