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'''Panayiotis Kalorkoti''' (born 11 April 1957, [[Cyprus]]) is a contemporary British artist. As well as [[painting]] in [[acrylic paint|acrylics]] and [[Watercolor painting|watercolour]] he does drawings and also experimented with [[etching]]s, [[screenprint]]s, [[Lithography|lithographs]] and [[monotypes]]. He tends to produce a series of paintings for a specific exhibition. He works within specific terms of reference and his work has been described as an entirely modern iconography. His work is [[Figurative art|figurative]] and features bright colour, economic use of line and makes use of [[collage]], whilst referring to [[conceptualism]], [[Abstract art|abstraction]] and [[modernism]]. Most of the work tends to be in groups and it is in the serial works that the viewer will sense a certain questioning and re-focusing.<ref name=PK>[http://www.kalorkoti.com/ Panayiotis Kalorkoti]</ref> Of his artistic approach, Andrew Lambirth wrote:
'''Panayiotis Kalorkoti''' (born 11 April 1957, [[Cyprus]]) is a British artist. He works primarily in [[acrylic paint|acrylics]] and [[Watercolor painting|watercolour]], and has also produced [[drawing]]s, [[etching]]s, [[screenprint]]s, [[Lithography|lithographs]] and [[monotypes]]. His work is [[Figurative art|figurative]] and features bright colour, economic use of line and makes use of [[collage]], whilst referring to [[conceptualism]], [[Abstract art|abstraction]] and [[modernism]].<ref name=PK>[http://www.kalorkoti.com/ Panayiotis Kalorkoti]</ref>

{{cquote|Kalorkoti tirelessly returns to an idea to probe it further, and has developed the good Modernist habit of taking things to a logical conclusion, by way of thorough serial exploration. Panayiotis Kalorkoti aims to question and challenge our assumptions, to keep us on the ''qui vive'', and heighten our awareness of our relationship to the world. }}


==Early life==
==Early life==
Kalorkoti was born in [[Cyprus]] in 1957 and moved to the United Kingdom in 1966. He became a British citizen in 1974. He studied at [[Newcastle University|Newcastle upon Tyne University]] (1976–80) and the [[Royal College of Art]], [[London]] (1982–85).<ref name=PK/> Of his student days, Frank Whitford wrote:
Kalorkoti was born in [[Cyprus]] in 1957. He was raised in a poor family and moved to the United Kingdom in 1966.<ref name="AutoA6-1"/> He became a British citizen in 1974. He studied at [[Newcastle University|Newcastle upon Tyne University]] (1976–80) and the [[Royal College of Art]], [[London]] (1982–85).<ref name="AutoA6-2"/>


==Career==
{{cquote| There was a time when he wandered around the College with two small sketchbooks, asking almost everyone he bumped into to draw a portrait of Kalorkoti in one of the books while he made one of his victim in the other. Almost no-one refused, and the result is a unique and valuable document of the faces of the celebrated and the unknown, from [[David Hockney]] to fellow students, who had crossed his path. }}
Kalorkoti's work has been shown at the [[Imperial War Museum]], London, [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]], London, and [[National Garden Festival]], Gateshead. He has worked on major public projects, such as a residency at [[Grizedale Forest]], Cumbria and has been [[artist in residence]] for the [[West Yorkshire Playhouse|Leeds Playhouse]] and has won fellowships, [[scholarships]] and [[Commission (art)|commissions]]. He was appointed the official war artist for the [[Falklands War]].<ref name="HicksBritain)1995">{{cite book|author1=Penny Hicks|author2=Automobile Association (Great Britain)|title=Explore Britain's historic houses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3UnizBXuM5UC|date=1 May 1995|publisher=Automobile Association|isbn=978-0-7495-1049-7|page=26}}</ref><ref name="AutoA6-1">[http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/theatre/the-female-form-4624776 ''The female form by Tamzin Lewis, The Journal'']</ref><ref name="AutoA6-2">[https://www.questia.com/library/1G1-81818041/an-artist-who-paints-in-poetry-exhibition-kalorkoti ''An Artist 'Who Paints in Poetry' EXHIBITION: Kalorkoti by Judith Bumpus, Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)'']</ref><ref>[https://www.questia.com/library/1G1-60434423/art-exhibitions-shedding-light-on-the-face-of-art ''Shedding Light on the Face of Art by Lucy Bell, Coventry Evening Telegraph'']</ref>


Kalorkoti has been a part-time visiting lecturer at a number of art schools and won a Netherlands Government Scholarship (1986–87). He was appointed a Bartlett Fellow in the Visual Arts at [[Newcastle University]] in 1988 and was artist in residence at Cleveland County in 1992.<ref name="Publications2003">{{cite book|author=Europa Publications|title=The International Who's Who 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sR4Ch1dMe8IC&pg=PA845|year=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-217-6|page=845}}</ref>
==Background==
Kalorkoti has held exhibitions in Britain and abroad which include the [[Imperial War Museum]], London, [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]], London, and [[National Garden Festival]], Gateshead. He has worked on major public projects, such as [[Grizedale Arts]], Cumbria and has been [[artist in residence]] for the [[West Yorkshire Playhouse|Leeds Playhouse]] and has won fellowships, [[scholarships]] and [[Commission (art)|commissions]]. He has exhibited regularly in a number of public galleries and museums.<ref>[http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/theatre/the-female-form-4624776 ''The female form by Tamzin Lewis, The Journal'']</ref><ref>[http://www.questia.com/library/1G1-81818041/an-artist-who-paints-in-poetry-exhibition-kalorkoti ''An Artist 'Who Paints in Poetry' EXHIBITION: Kalorkoti by Judith Bumpus, Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)'']</ref><ref>[http://www.questia.com/library/1G1-60434423/art-exhibitions-shedding-light-on-the-face-of-art ''Shedding Light on the Face of Art by Lucy Bell, Coventry Evening Telegraph'']</ref> Writing for a catalogue in 2007 [[John Russell Taylor]] noted that:

{{cquote| Kalorkoti, like all real artists, is a clear case of skill directing instinct. The beginning is the instinct, that something from below or outside the conscious mind which tells the conscious artist to paint in reds or blues, images of dogs or buildings or young women, orders that he cannot but obey. }}

==Artistic career==
Kalorkoti has been a part-time visiting lecturer at a number of art schools and won a Netherlands Government Scholarship (1986–87); was Bartlett Fellow in the Visual Arts at [[Newcastle University]] (1988); was artist in residence at Cleveland County (1992); and has had a number of other artist in residence.<ref>[http://issuu.com/powershift/docs/dictionary_k ''ISSUU - Artist Biography by David Buckman, Goldmark Gallery – publishing'']</ref> Kalorkoti has had many commissions and the [[British Council]];<ref name=P>>[http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/artist/5/17875 ''British Council'']</ref> [[Imperial War Museum]]; [[Laing Art Gallery]]; [[Hatton Gallery]]; and [[Stedelijk Museum]] have his work in their collection. Of his work, [[Norbert Lynton]] summarizes:

{{cquote| It is rare for art to be so directly about life. Not about lifestyles, about shocks or seductions, but about the life we experience as involuntary participants. What links all Kalorkoti’s art is solitude, his and ours. }}

==Projects==
Most of his work tends to be in groups or portfolios and it is in the serial works the viewer will find Kalorkoti’s artistic direction and ethos. Some projects such as [[Berlin]] Project, Homage to [[Francisco Goya|Goya]], The Fathers of Modern Art,<ref name=P/> [[West Yorkshire Playhouse]] Residency, Four Nations Capitals. Of the Four Nations Capitals [[Charles Saumarez Smith]] wrote:

{{cquote|I have known the work of Panayiotis Kalorkoti for a long time, ever since I first met him when I was Director of the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]] and very much respect the integrity with which he documents different aspects, and some of the stranger characteristics, of our national life. }}

==Publications==
*1988 ''Kalorkoti'', [[Hatton Gallery]], Newcastle upon Tyne and Tour: Darlington Arts Centre; Gray Art Gallery and Museum, Hartlepool; Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Hexham (catalogue-text by Eva Krabbe, 68 pages with 64 illustrations, 16 in colour)
*1990 ''[[National Garden Festival]] Commission'', Gateshead and Tour (catalogue-text by Roger Wollen, 40 pages with 234 illustrations, 8 in colour) ISBN 0-901273-15-5
*1990 ''A Retrospective of Etchings and Screenprints 1978–89'', [[Imperial War Museum]], London (catalogue-text by Frank Whitford, 40 pages with 33 illustrations, 20 in colour) ISBN 0-901627-56-9
*1992 ''A Retrospective View 1985–91'', Design Works, Gateshead (catalogue-text by [[Timothy Hyman]], 32 pages with 46 illustrations, 44 in colour) ISBN 0-9519585-0-X
*1992 ''Etchings and Drawings'', [[Cleveland Gallery]], Middlesbrough and Tour: Steendrukkerij Amsterdam B.V. (catalogue-text by Frank Van den Broeck, 72 pages with 93 illustrations, 48 in colour) ISBN 0-904784-21-5
*1994 ''Retrospective (Etchings 1983–93)'', Gallery K, London and Tour: Galerie Titanium, Athens (catalogue-text by [[Roger Cardinal]], 32 pages with 44 illustrations, 33 in colour) ISBN 1-898710-00-7
*1995 ''Reflections of Grizedale (Acrylics, Watercolours, Etchings)'', Gallery in the Forest, Grizedale (catalogue-text by [[Edward Lucie-Smith]], 60 pages with 43 illustrations, 36 in colour) ISBN 0-9525450-0-4
*1997 ''An Exhibition of Acrylics, Watercolours and Etchings'', Design Works, Gateshead (catalogue-text by Mel Gooding, 60 pages with 55 illustrations, 53 in colour) ISBN 0-9519585-1-8
*1998 ''Heads, Faces and Figures'', [[Shipley Art Gallery]], Gateshead and Tour: [[Herbert Art Gallery & Museum]], Coventry (catalogue-text by [[Robin Warwick Gibson|Robin Gibson]], 40 pages with 70 illustrations, 53 in colour) ISBN 0-905974-71-9
*2000 ''Acrylics, Watercolours and Etchings'', AdHoc Gallery, Buddle Arts Centre, North Tyneside, (catalogue-text by [[Norbert Lynton]], 40 pages with 44 illustrations, 43 in colour) ISBN 0-9531108-0-X
*2001 ''Flowers in Watercolour'', Gallery K, London and Tour (catalogue-text by Andrew Lambirth, 40 pages with 57 illustrations, 51 in colour) ISBN 1-898710-38-4
*2002 ''Moving Figures'', Bangor Museum & Art Gallery, Wales and Tour: [[Usher Gallery]], Lincoln (catalogue-text by [[Judith Bumpus]], 40 pages with 61 illustrations, 61 in colour)
*2005 ''In Motion'', [[The Biscuit Factory]], Newcastle upon Tyne (catalogue-text by Elspeth Moncrieff, 40 pages with 51 illustrations, 51 in colour) ISBN 0-9549903-0-7
*2007 ''In a Movement'', BIC, Sunderland (catalogue-text by Huon Mallalieu, 48 pages with 72 illustrations, 72 in colour) ISBN 978-0-9556317-0-2
*2007 ''Events'', European Commission in the UK, London (catalogue-text by [[John Russell Taylor]], 40 pages with 41 illustrations, 41 in colour)
*2014 ''Four Nations Capitals'', Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne (Catalogue – text by [[John Russell Taylor]]; Huon Mallalieu; [[Charles Saumarez Smith]]; Kathleen Soriano; Elspeth Bray; Frank Van den Broeck; [[Roger Cardinal]]), 48 pages with 88 colour illustrations ISBN 978-0-9555846-9-5

==Selected solo exhibitions==
*1980 ''Recent Prints'', [[University of Northumbria at Newcastle]]
*1984 ''People and Places'', Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal
*1987 ''Prints'', The Minories, Colchester
*1987 ''Coloured Etchings'', Steendrukkerij Amsterdam B.V.
*1988–89 ''Kalorkoti'', [[Hatton Gallery]], Newcastle and tour: Darlington Arts Centre; Gray Art Gallery and Museum, Hartlepool; Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Hexham (Catalogue-text by Eva Krabbe)
*1990 ''A Retrospective of Etchings and Screenprints 1978–89'', [[Imperial War Museum]], London (Catalogue-text by Frank Whitford)
*1990 ''National Garden Festival Commission, 1990'', [[National Garden Festival]], Gateshead (Catalogue-text by Roger Wollen)
*1992 ''A Retrospective View 1985–91'', Design Works, Gateshead (Catalogue-text by [[Timothy Hyman]])
*1992 ''Etchings and Drawings'', [[Cleveland Gallery]], Middlesbrough and tour: Steendrukkerij Amsterdam B.V. (Catalogue-text by Frank Van den Broeck)
*1994 ''Retrospective (Etchings 1983–93)'', Gallery K, London and tour: Galerie Titanium, Athens (Catalogue-text by [[Roger Cardinal]])
*1995 ''Reflections of Grizedale (Acrylics, Watercolours, Etchings''), Gallery in the Forest, Grizedale (Catalogue - text by [[Edward Lucie-Smith]])
*1997–98 ''An Exhibition of Acrylics, Watercolours and Etchings'', Design Works, Gateshead (Catalogue-text by Mel Gooding)
*1998–99 ''Heads, Faces and Figures'', [[Shipley Art Gallery]], Gateshead and tour: [[Herbert Art Gallery & Museum]], Coventry (Catalogue-text by [[Robin Warwick Gibson|Robin Gibson]])
*2000 ''Acrylics, Watercolours and Etchings'', AdHoc Gallery, Buddle Arts Centre, North Tyneside (Catalogue-text by [[Norbert Lynton]])
*2001 ''Flowers in Watercolour'', Gallery K, London and tour: Gallery K, Nicosia (Catalogue-text by Andrew Lambirth)
*2002 ''Moving Figures'', Bangor Museum & Art Gallery, Wales and tour: [[Usher Gallery]], Lincoln (Catalogue-text by [[Judith Bumpus]])
*2005 ''In Motion'', [[The Biscuit Factory]], Newcastle upon Tyne (Catalogue-text by Elspeth Moncrieff)
*2007 ''In a Movement'', BIC, Sunderland (Catalogue-text by Huon Mallalieu)
*2007 ''Events'', European Commission in the UK, London (Catalogue-text by [[John Russell Taylor]])
*2014 ''Four Nations Capitals'', Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne (Catalogue – text by [[John Russell Taylor]]; Huon Mallalieu; [[Charles Saumarez Smith]]; Kathleen Soriano; Elspeth Bray; Frank Van den Broeck; [[Roger Cardinal]])

=== Selected group exhibitions ===
*1983 ''Northern Young Contemporaries'', (awarded Granada Prize) [[Whitworth Art Gallery]], Manchester
*1984 ''New Contemporaries'', [[Institute of Contemporary Arts]], London (Catalogue)
*1985 ''Printmakers at the Royal College of Art'', Concourse Gallery, [[Barbican Centre]], London (Catalogue - text by [[William Feaver]])
*1986 ''Tradition and Innovation in Printmaking Today'', Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery and tour: [[Ferens Art Gallery]], Hull; Andrew Grant Gallery, Edinburgh; Concourse Gallery, [[Barbican Centre]], London; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (Catalogue)
*1986 ''Between Identity and Politics, A New Art'', Gimpel Fils, London and tour: Darlington Arts Centre; Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York (Catalogue)
*1986 ''Whitechapel Open'', [[Whitechapel Art Gallery]], London
*1989 ''The Artistic Records Committee: A Retrospective 1972–1989'', [[Imperial War Museum]], London
*1991 ''Homage to Goya and Soldier'', [[Modern Art Oxford]]
*1993 ''[[The Portrait Now]]'', National Portrait Gallery, London (Catalogue-text by Robin Gibson)
*1993 Gallery K, London (Catalogue - text by Mary Rose Beaumont)
*1995 ''Heads and Tales II'', [[Herbert Art Gallery & Museum]], Coventry
*2001 ''A New Light'', [[Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery]]
*2002 ''Butterflies and Moths'', [[Derby Museum and Art Gallery]]
*2006–07 ''Story'', Alexia Goethe Gallery, London (Catalogue)
*2008 ''Mediterraneo: a Sea that Unites'', [[Italian Cultural Institute]], London (Catalogue-text by Gabriele Magnani)
*2009–15 ''What Lies Beneath: British Experiences of the Cold War'', [[Imperial War Museum]] ({{Official website|http://www.whatliesbeneath.org.uk}})


==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.kalorkoti.com Official website]
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=Kalorkoti&items_per_page=20 |title=Collections Search for "Kalorkoti" |work=IWM Collections Search |year=2013 |accessdate=12 March 2013 |author=[[Imperial War Museum]]}}
*[http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/kalorkoti-panayiotis-1957 British Council]
*[http://ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/information/exhibitions/2007_en.htm ''European Commission Representation in United Kingdom'']
*[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=Panayiotis%20Kalorkoti Imperial War Museum]
*[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/panayiotis-kalorkoti/96/530/208 ''LinkedIn'']
*[http://www.saatchiart.com/PanKal ''Saatchi Art'']
*[http://www.artnet.com/artists/panayiotis-kalorkoti/past-auction-results Artnet]
*[http://collectionssearchtwmuseums.org.uk/#view=list&id=bc06&modules=ecatalogue&maker=Panayiotis%20Kalorkoti&ColObjectStatus=Current Tyne & Wear Museums]
*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Panayiotis+Kalorkoti&x=15&y=22 ''Amazon'']
*[http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&vl(174399379UI0)=any&frbg=&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1330443506053&srt=rank&ct=search&mode=Basic&dum=true&tb=t&indx=1&vl(freeText0)=Panayiotis+Kalorkoti&vid=BLVU1&fn=search British Library]
*[http://www.worldwhoswho.com/views/browse.html?id=kah-ep-170103-1340 ''World Who’s Who'']
*[http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&vl(174399379UI0)=any&frbg=&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1372259221794&srt=rank&ct=search&mode=Basic&dum=true&indx=1&tb=t&vl(freeText0)=Panayiotis+Kalorkoti&vid=BLVU1&fn=search&fromLogin=true ''British Library'']
*[http://catalogue.nal.vam.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12I08G74940A7.42113&profile=nal&uri=link=3100006~!399385~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab114&menu=search&ri=2&source=~!horizon&term=Kalorkoti%2C+Panayiotis%2C+1957-+--+Exhibitions&index=NAME#focus ''National Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum'']
*[http://orbexpress.library.yale.edu/vwebv/search?searchArg=Panayiotis+Kalorkoti&searchCode=GKEY%5E*&limitTo=none&recCount=50&searchType=1&page.search.search.button=Search ''Yale University Library'']
*[http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=Kalorkoti+Panayiotis ''Smithsonian Institution'']
*[http://library.rijksmuseum.nl/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=Panayiotis+Kalorkoti ''Rijksmuseum Research Library'']
*[http://nypl.bibliocommons.com/search?t=author&q=Panayiotis%20Kalorkoti&commit=Search&searchOpt=catalogue ''New York Public Library'']
*[http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/universitygallery/exhibitionarchive/artistdetail1/?ArtistID=401 ''Northumbria University'']
*[http://archive.balticmill.com/index.php?termid=23785 ''BALTIC Library & Archive'']
*[http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/theatre/the-female-form-1571194 ''The female form, Chronicle Live'']
*[http://www.unhingedfestival.com/panayiotis-kalorkoti/ ''Unhinged Festival'']
*[http://pustun.tk/The_Portrait_Now ''The Portrait Now'']
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3560044/Artists-copyright-full-list-of-signatures.html ''The Telegraph'']
*[http://katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/search.cgi?sprache=ENG&query=Panayiotis%20Kalorkoti&fsubmit=ok&quelle=homepage ''Heidelberg University Library'']
*[http://iaiweb1.iai.spk-berlin.de/CHARSET=UTF-8/LNG=DU/DB=2/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1016&SRT=YOP&TRM=Panayiotis+Kalorkoti ''SPK-Kunstbibliothek, Berlin'']
*[http://trove.nla.gov.au/book/result?q=subject%3A%22Kalorkoti%2C+Panayiotis%2C+1957-%22 ''National Library of Australia'']
*[http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/ARTISTS_FILE_INDEX_2010.pdf ''Mid-Manhattan Library Art Collection'']


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Panayiotis Kalorkoti
Born (1957-04-11) 11 April 1957 (age 67)
Ayios Amvrossios, Cyprus
NationalityBritish
EducationNewcastle upon Tyne University (1976–80)
Royal College of Art, London (1982–85)
Known forPainting, printmaking
Websitewww.kalorkoti.com

Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 11 April 1957, Cyprus) is a British artist. He works primarily in acrylics and watercolour, and has also produced drawings, etchings, screenprints, lithographs and monotypes. His work is figurative and features bright colour, economic use of line and makes use of collage, whilst referring to conceptualism, abstraction and modernism.[1]

Early life

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Kalorkoti was born in Cyprus in 1957. He was raised in a poor family and moved to the United Kingdom in 1966.[2] He became a British citizen in 1974. He studied at Newcastle upon Tyne University (1976–80) and the Royal College of Art, London (1982–85).[3]

Career

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Kalorkoti's work has been shown at the Imperial War Museum, London, National Portrait Gallery, London, and National Garden Festival, Gateshead. He has worked on major public projects, such as a residency at Grizedale Forest, Cumbria and has been artist in residence for the Leeds Playhouse and has won fellowships, scholarships and commissions. He was appointed the official war artist for the Falklands War.[4][2][3][5]

Kalorkoti has been a part-time visiting lecturer at a number of art schools and won a Netherlands Government Scholarship (1986–87). He was appointed a Bartlett Fellow in the Visual Arts at Newcastle University in 1988 and was artist in residence at Cleveland County in 1992.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Panayiotis Kalorkoti
  2. ^ a b The female form by Tamzin Lewis, The Journal
  3. ^ a b An Artist 'Who Paints in Poetry' EXHIBITION: Kalorkoti by Judith Bumpus, Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
  4. ^ Penny Hicks; Automobile Association (Great Britain) (1 May 1995). Explore Britain's historic houses. Automobile Association. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-7495-1049-7.
  5. ^ Shedding Light on the Face of Art by Lucy Bell, Coventry Evening Telegraph
  6. ^ Europa Publications (2003). The International Who's Who 2004. Psychology Press. p. 845. ISBN 978-1-85743-217-6.
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