Is Your Artwork Really Necessary?

Michael Paraskos is one of a new generation of writers, artists and critics associated with the New Aesthetics, an informal group that is challenging the mainstream art world with a fundamental belief that art is a material response to the material world. In this collection of essays, articles and reviews, written for newspapers and magazines including the Epoch Times and Art Review, Paraskos casts a critical eye over the current cultural scene, writing on topics ranging from Duchamp and the Turner Prize to van Dyck and the Victorian obsession with sex.