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  • Humans: Volume 5 by Bieger, Laura
    Laura Bieger

    Humans: Volume 5

    Surveys the representations and constructions of the human being in American art. Humans are organisms, but "the human being" is a term referring to a complicated, self-contradictory, and historically evolving set of concepts and practices. Humans explores competing versions, constructs, and ideas of the...
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  • Marlene Dumas: Female by Winzen, Matthias
    Matthias Winzen

    Marlene Dumas: Female

    Marlene Dumas - feminist view of the body No other series has been as formative for the way the artist saw herself or sees herself now in retrospect, nor indeed more decisive for what was to follow, than the portrait sequence Female from 1992/3....
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  • Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats by Decker, Julie
    Julie Decker

    Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats

    Jonathon Keats' work as an artist and thinker is compelling for our time. Keats poses critical questions, asks us to fundamentally reconsider our assumptions, and proposes radical methods of response. In a time when the environment and human lifeways are experiencing unprecedented change, thought...
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  • Maine's Lithographic Landscapes: Town and City Views, 1830-1870 by Shettleworth, Earle G.
    Earle G. Shettleworth

    Maine's Lithographic Landscapes: Town and City Views, 1830-1870

    During the nineteenth century, Americans celebrated their towns and cities through printed landscapes. In Maine, lithographs were commissioned from such leading artists as Fitz Henry Lane and talented, lesser known local artists, such as Esteria Butler. This book reproduces many of these works and...
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  • Preternatural: Michael Scott by Scott, Michael
    Michael Scott

    Preternatural: Michael Scott

    Michael Scott's landscapes embody the primacy of place. They draw from memory, archetypes, and iconic works of the American canon. His paintings aim not to capture a landscape's particularity, as such, but to infuse it with the regenerative spirit of nature itself. He brings...
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  • In Process: Photos and Notes from the Archives of Phil Hansen by Hansen, Phil
    Phil Hansen

    In Process: Photos and Notes from the Archives of Phil Hansen

    This is not your father's Artist Biography. There are no essays waxing on about the work and meaning. This is a living collection of photos and notes that cover nearly 20 years documenting the life and projects of Artist Phil Hansen (still alive). For...
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  • Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America's First Museum of Modern Art (B&W) by Carter-Birken, Pamela
    Pamela Carter-Birken

    Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America's First Museum of Modern Art (B&W)

    He was born to privilege and sought the world of art. She lived at the center of that world-a working artist encouraged by the famous artists in her extended family. Together, Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips founded The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.,...
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  • West Point Points West by Museum, Denver Art
    Denver Art Museum

    West Point Points West

    To twenty-first-century observers, artistic training may seem an unnecessary frill in a soldier's education. But during the nineteenth and even the twentieth centuries, military officers were expected to sketch battlefields and design fortifications. Officers of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, which organized exploring...
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  • Wild Spaces, Open Seasons, 27: Hunting and Fishing in American Art by Sharp, Kevin
    Kevin Sharp

    Wild Spaces, Open Seasons, 27: Hunting and Fishing in American Art

    Wild Spaces, Open Seasons traces the theme of hunting and fishing in American art from the early nineteenth century through World War II. Describing a remarkable group of American paintings and sculpture, the contributors reveal the pervasiveness of the subjects and the fascinating contexts...
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  • Branding the American West, 23: Paintings and Films, 1900-1950 by Wardle, Marian
    Marian Wardle

    Branding the American West, 23: Paintings and Films, 1900-1950

    Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the California-based artist Maynard Dixon departed from the legendary depiction of the "Wild West" and fostered new images, or brands, for...
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  • Fern Hunting Among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica by Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
    Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser

    Fern Hunting Among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica

    In 1865, the American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and his wife, Isabel, traveled to Jamaica on a sojourn of recovery after the tragic deaths of their two young children Herbert and Emma. A time to mourn and escape from the constant reminders found...
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  • Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art by Saggese, Jordana Moore
    Jordana Moore Saggese

    Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art

    Before his death at the age of twenty-seven, Jean-Michel Basquiat completed nearly 2,000 works. These unique compositions--collages of text and gestural painting across a variety of media--quickly made Basquiat one of the most important and widely known artists of the 1980s. Reading Basquiat provides...
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  • A Troublesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson by Fineberg, Jonathan
    Jonathan Fineberg

    A Troublesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson

    The first major book to consider the life and work of Robert Arneson, A Troublesome Subject tells the fascinating story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. Representing the full scope of Arneson's career...
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  • Birds of New York: Over 100 Plates by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz
    Louis Agassiz Fuertes

    Birds of New York: Over 100 Plates

    In 1910 and 1914, a two-volume study of New York's native birds was issued as part of the State Museum's annual report. A vast catalog of hundreds of species, the survey was illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927), a rising star in scientific bird...
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  • True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World by Haden-Guest, Anthony
    Anthony Haden-Guest

    True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World

    The last quarter century has been an extraordinary and turbulent period in the art world. It was a time of creative intensity during which a handful of artists, like Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, managed, in their different ways, to...
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  • Elizabeth Murray by Murray, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Murray

    Elizabeth Murray

    Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of Modernist painting. Her shaped and constructed canvases, often topologically modeled in three dimensions or fitted together out of multiple jigsaw-like parts, treat figure and ground in unprecedented ways, giving the elastic shapes of classic Surrealism a...
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  • Andy Warhol Drag and Draw: The Unknown Fifties by Schleif, Nina
    Nina Schleif

    Andy Warhol Drag and Draw: The Unknown Fifties

    Andy Warhol's oeuvre during the first decade of his career, before he became the godfather of pop, proved to be enormously influential on his life's work, yet remains little known. Drag & Draw highlights two series of drawings from this decade, when Warhol first...
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  • Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts by Nauman, Bruce
    Bruce Nauman

    Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts

    With a magician's sleight of hand, Nauman's art makes disappearance visibleAt 76 years old, Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art whose stringent questioning of values such as good and bad remains urgent today. Throughout his 50-year career, he...
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  • Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Ideologies of Desire) by Meyer, Richard
    Richard Meyer

    Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Ideologies of Desire)

    "I know it when I see it..." These words, famously spoken in 1964 by United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, became the rallying cry of the anti-obscenity lobby as their enraged howls became the soundtrack to a tumultuous mixture of modern art, homosexuality,...
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  • Patti Z. This is Me.: An Art Book to Awaken and Enhance the Creative Life Naturally by Zona, Patti
    Patti Zona

    Patti Z. This is Me.: An Art Book to Awaken and Enhance the Creative Life Naturally

    I had already written three books in a tumultuous time of my life. I was compelled to write feeling the importance of my experiences to be known. For I knew I was not alone and did not want history to repeat itself. We live...
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  • Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America by Kelly, Catherine E.
    Catherine E. Kelly

    Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America

    Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate--and therefore a marker of breeding and station--or acquired--and thus the product of application and study--all could appreciate that...
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  • Dudley Carter: Tales of the Legendary Wood Sculptor by Lambert, 'lyn Fleury
    'lyn Fleury Lambert

    Dudley Carter: Tales of the Legendary Wood Sculptor

    Dudley Carter-possibly the most famous artist you've never heard of... ". . . a lively and loving portrait of the great Northwest master, capturing the life and work of an artist as powerful as the ancient forests from which he drew his strength and...
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  • Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting by Robbins, Christa Noel
    Christa Noel Robbins

    Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting

    With Artist as Author, Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. Taking a close look at this influential period of art history, Robbins describes how artists and critics used the medium of painting...
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  • Ode to East Texas, 23: The Art of Lee Jamison by Jamison, Lee
    Lee Jamison

    Ode to East Texas, 23: The Art of Lee Jamison

    In 2017, Huntsville artist Lee Jamison embarked on a trip with sketchbook in hand, recording his impressions and recollections of East Texas, a region he has called home for about 45 years. Having built a solid reputation as a respected Texas Regionalist painter, Jamison,...
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  • Relations: Diaspora and Painting by Sim, Cheryl
    Cheryl Sim

    Relations: Diaspora and Painting

    This richly illustrated volume explores the multiple and evolving meanings of diaspora, its condition, and its experiences as expressed through painting. Relations brings together artists who address questions of diaspora from diverse perspectives, methodologies, and aesthetic languages. With its own deep and complex history,...
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  • Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy by Reilly, Maura
    Maura Reilly

    Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy

    Luise Kaish was a key figure in the New York art scene of the late 20th century, whose multidisciplinary and process-oriented practice contributed to various artistic discourses at the time. The strength and breadth of her work, her influential role in education, and the...
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  • Black Mountain Chamberlain: John Chamberlain's Writings at Black Mountain College, 1955 by Chamberlain, John
    John Chamberlain

    Black Mountain Chamberlain: John Chamberlain's Writings at Black Mountain College, 1955

    The first publication of the unknown poetry of a major twentieth-century sculptor In 1955, long before he became famous for his abstract metal sculptures, John Chamberlain lived at Black Mountain College, writing poetry alongside Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson. By the time...
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  • Boats, Barns & Bungalows by Hempel, T. F.
    T. F. Hempel

    Boats, Barns & Bungalows

    Water-colorist T. F. Hempel has been painting for more than 40 years, creating masterpieces of icons of the Quad Cities and the surrounding area. Subjects as different as boats and commercial buildings along with personal residences are all seen in Hempel's work. Enjoy this...
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  • From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia by Burrison, John a.
    John a. Burrison

    From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia

    John Michael Vlach called Brothers in Clay "not only the best study of American stoneware pottery now available but also a fine model for the presentation and analysis of hand-based technologies." The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss noted, "Mr. Burrison has brought to this undertaking a...
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  • The West of the Imagination by Goetzmann, William H.
    William H. Goetzmann

    The West of the Imagination

    For many people, "western art" immediately conjures images by Frederic Remington or Georgia O'Keeffe--but there's so much more. From early explorers' first sketches of the Rockies to the modern earth sculptures of Michael Heizer, images of the American West are as multifaceted as its...
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  • Spirit: The Art of Robert Bissell by Burke, Zoe
    Zoe Burke

    Spirit: The Art of Robert Bissell

    Spirit: The Art of Robert Bissell includes more than 130 of Bissell's artworks that help illuminate the universal quest into the world of spirit. His familiar bears and rabbits are joined by elephants and humans as they find love and connection. Spirit guides offer...
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  • Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence by Lemay, Kate Clarke
    Kate Clarke Lemay

    Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence

    A richly illustrated history of women's suffrage in the United States that highlights underrecognized activists Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women is the first richly illustrated book to reveal the history and complexity of the...
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  • Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition by O'Doherty, Brian
    Brian O'Doherty

    Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition

    When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated--the three issues of Artforum in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian O'Doherty's provocative essays available again is a...
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  • We the People: Portraits of Veterans in America by Whyte, Mary
    Mary Whyte

    We the People: Portraits of Veterans in America

    We the people--these words embody the ethos of what it means to be an American citizen. As individuals we are a tapestry of colors and creeds; united we are a nation committed to preserving our hard-earned freedom. In this heart-stirring collection of watercolor portraits...
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  • Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell by Simic, Charles
    Charles Simic

    Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell

    Now in Paperback In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America's great artists. Simic's spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for...
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  • Manuel Neri and the Assertion of Modern Figurative Sculpture by Nemerov, Alexander
    Alexander Nemerov

    Manuel Neri and the Assertion of Modern Figurative Sculpture

    Manuel Neri is widely recognized for his life-size figurative sculptures in plaster, bronze, and marble. His work echoed the commitment of earlier artists, such as Alberto Giacometti and Marino Marini, who used the figure as a vehicle to express Modernist ideals in the aftermath...
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  • Schwinn: The Best Present Ever by Rauf, Don
    Don Rauf

    Schwinn: The Best Present Ever

    For many children of the sixties, the gift of a Schwinn was a ticket to freedom, a chance to feel the wind on their face and the steady rotation of rubber at their feet. The Schwinn took many through their childhood adventures, with memories...
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  • Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century by Young, Ralph
    Ralph Young

    Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century

    An extraordinarily visceral collection of posters that represent the progressive protest movements of the twentieth Century. Two of the most recognizable images of twentieth-century art are Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" and the rather modest mass-produced poster by an unassuming illustrator, Lorraine Schneider "War is Not...
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  • Comfort and Glory: Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Briscoe Center by Adams, Katherine Jean
    Katherine Jean Adams

    Comfort and Glory: Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Briscoe Center

    Quilts bear witness to the American experience. With a history that spans the early republic to the present day, this form of textile art can illuminate many areas of American life, such as immigration and settlement, the development of our nation's textile industry, and...
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  • Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America's First Museum of Modern Art (Color) by Carter-Birken, Pamela
    Pamela Carter-Birken

    Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America's First Museum of Modern Art (Color)

    He was born to privilege and sought the world of art. She lived at the center of that world-a working artist encouraged by the famous artists in her extended family. Together, Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips founded The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.,...
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  • Dudley Carter: Tales of the Legendary Wood Sculptor by Lambert, 'lyn Fleury
    'lyn Fleury Lambert

    Dudley Carter: Tales of the Legendary Wood Sculptor

    Dudley Carter-possibly the most famous artist you've never heard of...In 1932 Dudley Christopher Carter, a forty-year-old mini Paul Bunyan, literally hewed his way out of the forest primeval and into the sophisticated world of art. Carter's first experiment in monumental wood sculpture, Rivalry of...
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  • Framing First Contact: From Catlin to Russell Volume 38 by Elliott, Kate
    Kate Elliott

    Framing First Contact: From Catlin to Russell Volume 38

    Representations of first contact--the first meetings of European explorers and Native Americans--have always had a central place in our nation's historical and visual record. They have also had a key role in shaping and interpreting that record. In Framing First Contact author Kate Elliott...
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  • The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansionvolume 73 by Klein, Shana
    Shana Klein

    The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion Volume 73

    The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an unprecedented amount of fruit as it grew more accessible with advancements in refrigeration and transportation technologies. This...
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  • Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury by Burke, Carolyn
    Carolyn Burke

    Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury

    A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. New York, 1921: acclaimed photographer Alfred Stieglitz celebrates the success of his...
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  • Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now by Naeem, Asma
    Asma Naeem

    Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now

    The first book highlighting the historical roots and contemporary implications of the silhouette as an American art form Before the advent of photography in 1839, Americans were consumed by the fashion for silhouette portraits. Economical in every sense, the small, stark profiles cost far...
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  • N. C. Wyeth 24 Art Cards: From the Brandywine River Museum of Art by Wyeth, N. C.
    N. C. Wyeth

    N. C. Wyeth 24 Art Cards: From the Brandywine River Museum of Art

    Father of Andrew Wyeth, pupil of Howard Pyle, and one of the preeminent illustrators of the twentieth century, Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945) learned early to use dramatic effects to great advantage in his works. At the start of his career, these robust, romantic illustrations...
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  • Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction by Cottington, David
    David Cottington

    Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction

    Public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of the Tate Modern in London and the Bilbao Guggenheim. Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction engages general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but...
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  • Edward Hopper: Inner and Outer Worlds by Koja, Stefan
    Stefan Koja

    Edward Hopper: Inner and Outer Worlds

    Edward Hopper and the Old Masters--​a new look at the American artist. Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of the most renowned American artists of the twentieth century, known for his distinctive renderings of urban life. Through his scenes of everyday life, he opened a...
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  • Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women by Pollock, Griselda
    Griselda Pollock

    Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women

    This groundbreaking study redefines the status of the beloved American artist Mary Cassatt, placing her work in the wider context of nineteenth- century feminism and art theory. Mary Cassatt looks at the artist's work in light of her time as an advocate for women's...
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  • Trails of a Paintbrush: An Artist's Memoir by Brewer, Nicholas R.
    Nicholas R. Brewer

    Trails of a Paintbrush: An Artist's Memoir

    Comparatively few visual artists have written autobiographies, and Trails of a Paintbrush by Nicholas R. Brewer (1857-1949) is an especially engaging story of an artist's education and rise to success. From his beginnings on a pioneering Minnesota farm, Brewer was curious, industrious, and responsive...
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