Born:
1921 in Constantinople (of parents originating from the Dodecanese)

Married:
1944 to Painter-Stage Designer George Vakalo (1902-1991). 
Her son Manos Vakalo (1946-2000) was Professor of Architecture at Michigan University USA.

Education:
Archaeology, Athens University, Faculty of Philosophy
Specialisation in Art History at Sorbonne, Paris.

Work:
- Art Reviewer for Daily Athens Newspaper “Ta Nea”, 1952-1974 (with a two-year interruption during the dictatorship years)
- Art Critic for the Art Journal “Zygos”, 1955-1967
- Founding Member of Vakalo School of Art and Design (1958)
- Member of the Board of Directors of the School (1958-to date)
- Teacher of Art History and Theory at the School (1958-1990)
- Contributed articles and essays to various journals. Lectures, seminars and radio programmes on art.
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Greek National Gallery, Athens (1994-to date)

Publications on Art:
- Introduction to Matters of Painting, 1960
- 12 Lectures on Modern Art, 1970
- The Meaning of Forms, 1975
- Styles and Terms of European Art, 1980
- The Profile of Post-war Art in Greece (4 volumes)
   i. Abstraction, 1981 
   ii. Expressionism-Surrealism, 1982
   iii. The Myth of Greekness, 1983
   iv. After Abstraction, 1984
- From the Spectator’s Side, 1989
- Visual Arts Criticism (2 volumes), 1996
- Introductions, Prefaces, art-book presentations, exhibition catalogues, texts in artists’ publications.

Poetry Collections:
- Theme and Variations, 1945
- Memories from a Nightmare City, 1948
- In the Form of Theorems, 1951
- The Forest, 1954
- Mural, 1956
- Diaries of Age, 1958
- Description of the Body, 1959
- The Concept of the Blind, 1962
- How to Endanger Ourselves, 1966
- Genealogy, 1971 (Published in England with English Translation), reissued, 1990
- Of the World, 1978
- The Palavers of Ma’am Rodalina, 1984
- Facts and Stories of Ma’am Rodalina, 1990
- Epilegomena, 1997

Collective Publications:
- Before Lyricism, 1981
- The Otherness of the Thing, 1995

Awards:
- First State Poetry Prize, 1991
- Athens Academy Prize 1997
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Salonica, Faculty of History and Archaeology, 1998.
- Hon.D.Lit. University of Derby, U.K., 2000.

TV Documentaries dedicated to her life and work:
Monogramma, Paraskinio, Nyketrinos Episkeptis (Greek National Radio and Television - ERT)
Interviewed in numerous TV programmes on poetry and the visual arts.

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