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  • Famous Magicians in History: A History of Modern Magic by Fury, Sam
    Sam Fury

    Famous Magicians in History: A History of Modern Magic

    Discover The Most Legendary Magicians in History!In this mind opening book you will learn about the origins of magic, the best magicians in history, and their most amazing tricks.From the unforgettable Harry Houdini to the death-defying David Blane.Dive deep into the most important moments...
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  • Elmgreen & Dragset: Performances 1995-2011 by Elmgreen &. Dragset
    Elmgreen &. Dragset

    Elmgreen & Dragset: Performances 1995-2011

    Elmgreen & Dragset: Performances 1995-2011 showcases 43 performances and live works by Danish-Norwegian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, marking the first time the artists' practice is considered in depth from a performance perspective. Spanning nearly two decades, many of the works have never before...
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  • Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Performances of Denise Uyehara by Uyehara, Denise
    Denise Uyehara

    Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Performances of Denise Uyehara

    Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Performances of Denise Uyehara presents the complete texts of "Big Head" and "Maps of City and Body," two of Uyehara's most acclaimed shows. In "Big Head," Uyehara questions the logic of political and personal rhetoric...
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  • Performing Arts in Transition: Moving Between Media by Foellmer, Susanne
    Susanne Foellmer

    Performing Arts in Transition: Moving between Media

    Artists especially from dance and performance art as well as opera are involved to an increasing degree in the transfer between different media, not only in their productions but also the events, materials, and documents that surround them. At the same time, the focus...
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  • Rachel's Brain and Other Storms by Rosenthal, Rachel
    Rachel Rosenthal

    Rachel's Brain and Other Storms

    Rachel Rosenthal is an internationally recognised pioneer in the field of feminist and ecological performance art. Her revolutionary performance technique integrates text, movement, voice, choreography, improvisation, inventive costuming, dramatic lighting and wildly imaginative sets into an unforgettable theatre experience. In the last twenty years...
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  • Tania Bruguera: Let Truth Be, Though the World Perish by Bruguera, Tania
    Tania Bruguera

    Tania Bruguera: Let Truth Be, Though the World Perish

    Key performances and new works from the Cuban activist and artist famed for her courageous defiance of governmental oppression Over the past three decades, Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera (born 1968) has consistently and inventively blurred the line between art and activism. She first...
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  • Designing Broadway: How Derek McLane and Other Acclaimed Set Designers Create the Visual World of Theatre by McLane, Derek
    Derek McLane

    Designing Broadway: How Derek McLane and Other Acclaimed Set Designers Create the Visual World of Theatre

    In this richly illustrated and information-packed celebration of Broadway set design, Tony Award-winning designer Derek McLane explores the craft while reflecting on some of the greatest stage productions of the past few decades. Together with other leading set design and theatre talents, McLane invites...
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  • Achim Mohné Di-Gi-Ta-Lis by Mohne, Achim
    Achim Mohne

    Achim Mohné Di-Gi-Ta-Lis

    On Achim Mohn 's astounding eco-activist plant-scanning project German artist Achim Mohn (born 1964) uses photography to address ecological themes. DI-GI-TA-LIS documents an interdisciplinary project in which Mohn performatively scans plants and exhibits the plant scans as pigment prints; chefs turn the plants into...
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  • Embodied Performativity in Southeast Asia: Multidisciplinary Corporealities by Burridge, Stephanie
    Stephanie Burridge

    Embodied Performativity in Southeast Asia: Multidisciplinary Corporealities

    A collection presenting cutting edge research from music, dance, performance art, fashion and visual arts, written by scholar-practitioners working in Southeast Asia. This eclectic monograph explores multi-disciplinarily performativity through the body. Exploring the notion of the body as central to creative practice it draws...
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  • Winterdanse: The Misplaced Art of Snow Ballet by Russell, Michael
    Michael Russell

    Winterdanse: The Misplaced Art of Snow Ballet

    Recipient of the 2023 International Skiing History Association's Ullr Book Award.The story of ballet skiing is one of unrealized adulthood: a child of clashing influences became a mentor-deprived adolescent, ultimately orphaned and abandoned while searching for self. This wandering youngster answered to a m駘ange...
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  • Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995-2010 by Kelley, Bill, Jr.
    Bill Kelley Jr

    Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995-2010

    In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements--many of which are appearing in English for...
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  • Winterdanse: The Misplaced Art of Snow Ballet by Russell, Michael
    Michael Russell

    Winterdanse: The Misplaced Art of Snow Ballet

    Recipient of the 2023 International Skiing History Association's Ullr Book Award.The story of ballet skiing is one of unrealized adulthood: a child of clashing influences became a mentor-deprived adolescent, ultimately orphaned and abandoned while searching for self. This wandering youngster answered to a m駘ange...
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  • Art Demonstration: Group Material and the 1980s by Grace, Claire
    Claire Grace

    Art Demonstration: Group Material and the 1980s

    A study of Group Material, the influential but underexamined New York-based artist collective, investigating a series of key works. Key predecessor of contemporary art's most radical activist gestures, the 1980s collective Group Material seized upon the temporary exhibition as a prime mode of intervention....
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  • A Singing Approach to Horn Playing: Pitch, Rhythm, and Harmony Training for Horn by Douglass Grana, Natalie
    Natalie Douglass Grana

    A Singing Approach to Horn Playing: Pitch, Rhythm, and Harmony Training for Horn

    In A Singing Approach to Horn Playing, author and renowned teacher-musician Natalie Douglass Grana develops the fundamental sense of pitch that is essential to play the horn. The book begins with simple songs to sing on solf鑒e, buzz on the mouthpiece, and play on...
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  • Performing Care: New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance by Fisher, Amanda Stuart
    Amanda Stuart Fisher

    Performing Care: New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance

    This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of care, challenging existing debates in this area...
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  • Orphans by Kelly, Dennis
    Dennis Kelly

    Orphans

    Helen and Danny keep themselves to themselves. But the outside world comes crashing into their lives one day when Helen's brother turns up. Covered in blood. Dennis Kelly's new play is a thrilling contemporary suspense story which takes its audience on a chilling journey...
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  • Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics by Jackson, Shannon
    Shannon Jackson

    Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics

    'a game-changer, a must-read for scholars, students and artists alike' - Tom Finkelpearl At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, and when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform, this book...
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  • Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne/Technique/Technology by Baker, Camille C.
    Camille C. Baker

    Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne/Technique/Technology

    This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in the outcome itself - the artefact, artwork or performance - contributors instead highlight the emotional, intellectual, intuitive,...
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  • Jr: Can Art Change the World? by Thompson, Nato
    Nato Thompson

    Jr: Can Art Change the World?

    The most comprehensive monograph on the enigmatic French street artist - now updated to include brand-new workFilled with stunning photography, this extraordinary monograph charts JR's widereaching trajectory and a range of collaborative projects executed across the globe. Created in close collaboration with the artist,...
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  • Title Tk: An Anthology by Title Tk
    Title Tk

    Title Tk: An Anthology

    Comprised of the artists and musicians Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen and Alan Licht, Title TK is a "band" that performs in music or art contexts. While they appear on stage as a band, the members do not play live music. Instead the performances are...
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  • Fia Backström: COOP: A-Script by Backström, Fia
    Fia Backstr

    Fia Backstr: COOP: A-Script

    COOP documents Swedish artist Fia Backstr m's (born 1970) performances of two recent scripts, continuing her exploration of language, marketing, disorders and performance. The first script operates according to two distinct logics: a four-part linear base structure and text material that was chosen and...
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  • Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label by Ra, Sun
    Sun Ra

    Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label

    Considered the foremost exponent of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra mastered a wide array of styles that spanned jazz, R&B, exotica, Afro-hybrids, electronic, big band, solo piano, orchestral, experimental, and chamber works. In his 45-year recording career, he issued an epic number of albums and he...
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  • Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, by Those Who Lived It by Cohen-Cruz, Jan
    Jan Cohen-Cruz

    Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, by Those Who Lived It

    The experiences of a diverse range of progressive theater and performance makers in their own words Curated stories from over 75 interviews and informal exchanges offer insight into the field and point out limitations due to discrimination and unequal opportunity for performance artists in...
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  • Villa Design Group: Tragedy Machine by Upitis, Alise
    Alise Upitis

    Villa Design Group: Tragedy Machine

    Tragedy Machine follows an exhibition of new sculptures, architectural installations and a four-act theatrical production by London-based collective Villa Design Group at the List Visual Arts Center. The group combines design, theater and artistic production with issues of contemporary queer identity.Author: Alise UpitisISBN-10: 8867493140ISBN-13:...
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  • Simone Forti: The Bear in the Mirror by Forti, Simone
    Simone Forti

    Simone Forti: The Bear in the Mirror

    The Bear in the Mirror is a collection of stories, prose poems, drawings, photos, letters, notes and memories by Simone Forti (born 1935)--a founding figure of postwar American dance for those following in the wake of Merce Cunningham, who has transmitted her own legacy...
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  • Shibari Suspensions: A Step by Step Guide by Gestalta
    Gestalta

    Shibari Suspensions: A Step by Step Guide

    The art of Japanese-style rope bondage has become increasingly popular in recent years both for its beautiful visual aspect, and for the intimacy it creates between tying partners. This detailed reference book of fundamental suspension techniques will help you understand both the ties and...
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  • The Déjà Vu: Black Dreams & Black Time by Civil, Gabrielle
    Gabrielle Civil

    The déjà vu: black dreams & black time

    Gabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions. Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the déjà vu activates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement, speech, and lyric essay into performance memoir....
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  • Transgressive Devotion: Theology as Performance Art by Wigg Stevenson, Natalie
    Natalie Wigg-Stevenson

    Transgressive Devotion: Theology as Performance Art

    Academic theology is in need of a new genre. In "Transgressive Devotion" Natalie Wigg-Stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as performance art. She argues that theology done as performance art stops trying to describe who God is, and starts trying to make...
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  • Situationist Funhouse: G.H. Hovagimyan by Zacks, Stephen
    Stephen Zacks

    Situationist Funhouse: G.H. Hovagimyan

    G.H. Hovagimyan is an absurdist, a strategist, a serial collaborator, and nothing short of a cultural icon in the world of contemporary art, particularly as it relates to how artists have adopted the digital technological tools of our times, adapting them in his work...
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  • Skinner Releasing Technique: A Movement and Dance Practice by Emslie, Manny
    Manny Emslie

    Skinner Releasing Technique: A Movement and Dance Practice

    Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), created by Joan Skinner, is a somatic movement, dance and creative practice with a core underlying principle of releasing blocked energy, held tension and habitual patterns in body mind. It enables us to move with greater freedom and ease whilst...
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  • On the Technique of Acting by Chekhov, Michael
    Michael Chekhov

    On the Technique of Acting

    The most authoritative, authentic text of a classic guide to actingIn the four decades since its first publication, Michael Chekhov's To the Actor has become a standard text for students of the theater. But To the Actor is a shortened, heavily modified version of...
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  • Institution is a Verb: A Panoply Performance Lab Compilation by Neff, Esther
    Esther Neff

    Institution is a Verb: A Panoply Performance Lab Compilation

    INSTITUTION IS A VERB is a compendium of community-contributed texts, scores, notes, and documentation culminating and indexing 7 years of collaboration, para-capitalist research, and performative institution during Panoply Performance Laboratory's operations as a laboratory site at 104 Meserole Street in Brooklyn, NY. Gathering texts,...
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  • King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South by Rogers, Baker A.
    Baker A. Rogers

    King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South

    While drag subcultures have gained mainstream media attention in recent years, the main focus has been on female impersonators. Equally lively, however, is the community of drag kings: cis women, trans men, and non-binary people who perform exaggerated masculine personas onstage under such names...
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  • Laurie Anderson: All the Things I Lost in the Flood by Anderson, Laurie
    Laurie Anderson

    Laurie Anderson: All the Things I Lost in the Flood

    An icon of performance art and the indie-music world, this is the first book on the artist's full career to date, as curated by the artist herself. Laurie Anderson is one of the most revered artists working today, and she is as prolific as...
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  • Joseph Beuys--Manresa: A Spiritual Geography by Mennekes, Friedhelm
    Friedhelm Mennekes

    Joseph Beuys--Manresa: A Spiritual Geography

    The first performances by Joseph Beuys were a radical turning point for twentieth-century art. Beuys saw art as a transformative action that is both personal and communal, and his expanded artistic practice engaged spirituality, personal mythology, political structures, and symbolic materials. For Manresa, one...
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  • Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage: A "Minor" History by Joseph, Branden W.
    Branden W. Joseph

    Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage: A "Minor" History

    Tony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the "structural" film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Normal Love, follower of Henry Flynt's radical anti-art, member of the Theatre of Eternal Music and...
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  • Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age by Kuri, Jose Ferez
    Jose Ferez Kuri

    Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age

    This comprehensive biography presents the achievements of Brion Gysin, a multi-faceted artist whose work has influenced performers such as David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Recalling the heady atmosphere of the so-called Beat Hotel in Paris in the late 1950s and 1960s, it features first-hand...
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  • The Art of Resonance by Bogart, Anne
    Anne Bogart

    The Art of Resonance

    What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one's life and one's art? This latest book of essays from legendary theatre director Anne Bogart, considers the creation of resonance in the artistic endeavour, with a focus on the performing arts. The...
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  • Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation by Sally, Lynn
    Lynn Sally

    Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation

    The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful brand of pro-sex, often gender-bending, feminism. Performance studies scholar and acclaimed burlesque artist Lynn Sally offers...
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  • Art, Love, Friendship: Marina Abramovic and Ulay Together & Apart by McEvilley, Thomas
    Thomas McEvilley

    Art, Love, Friendship: Marina Abramovic and Ulay Together & Apart

    In 1975 Marina Abramovic and Uwe Laysiepen met in Amsterdam, fell in love, and began to collaborate as performance artists. By the time their personal relationship ended twelve years later they had become two of the most famous performance artists in the world. Thomas...
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  • Our Mary: The Stage Life of Mary Anderson by Tracy, Ronald
    Ronald Tracy

    "Our Mary": The Stage Life of Mary Anderson

    "Our Mary" is the story of Mary Anderson's rapid rise to stage stardom beginning at the age of seventeen years. From her first appearance on the stage in her hometown Louisville, KY, she garnered both praise and criticism for her acting ability, while her...
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  • Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy Through Celebrity, 1952-1970 by Gregory, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Gregory

    Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy Through Celebrity, 1952-1970

    While the later work of the great Modernist poet Marianne Moore was hugely popular during her final two decades, since her death critics have condemned it as trivial. This book challenges that assessment: with fresh readings of many of the late poems and of...
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  • Devising Theatre & Performance: Curious Methods by Paris, Helen
    Helen Paris

    Devising Theatre & Performance: Curious Methods

    A hands-on guide for artists, students, and teachers of devised theater, at any stage of their practice. This book is packed with thoughtful exercises distilled from twenty-five years of interdisciplinary artist workshops and teaching devising and performance making at universities in the United States...
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  • de Wet: Plays One by Wet, Reza de
    Reza de Wet

    de Wet: Plays One

    Includes the plays Missing, Crossing and Miracle The three plays in this volume are hauntingly beautiful pieces with simple fable-like characters who are touched by magical events. A circus has a mysterious significance in Missing (Mis) as a mother and daughter are visited by...
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  • Performance Now: Live Art for the Twenty-First Century by Goldberg, Roselee
    Roselee Goldberg

    Performance Now: Live Art for the Twenty-First Century

    This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium. Performance Now offers an unprecedented...
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  • Acting Action: A Primer for Actors by O'Gorman, Hugh
    Hugh O'Gorman

    Acting Action: A Primer for Actors

    "What is it that we're doing, when we're acting well?" This is the question famously posed by Earle Gister, the legendary head of the acting department at Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1999. In Acting Action, actor, director, and teaching artist Hugh...
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  • The Gurdjieff Movements: A Communication of Ancient Wisdom by Van Dullemen, Wim
    Wim Van Dullemen

    The Gurdjieff Movements: A Communication of Ancient Wisdom

    The teachings of the Russian spiritual visionary G.I. Gurdjieff ( 1866-1949) are still being studied by an ever-growing number of people worldwide. While scores of books exist about the man and his teaching methods, few devote significant coverage to "the Gurdjieff Movements." These dozens...
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  • Double-Parked, with Tosca: Poems by Kaufman, Ellen
    Ellen Kaufman

    Double-Parked, with Tosca: Poems

    Ellen Kaufman's Double-Parked, with Tosca navigates the natural and the manmade-often with an eye on their strained juxtaposition-or unravels the complex dynamics of the physical, social, and political. Kaufman can go from elegizing an Elizabethan old dress past to the environmentally conscious "now when]...
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  • The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance by de Bellis, Vincenzo
    Vincenzo de Bellis

    The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance

    How performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by F lix Gonz lez-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and morePresenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance examines the notion of stillness...
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  • Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches by Luckett, Sharrell
    Sharrell Luckett

    Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches

    Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.　 A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black American theatre illuminate...
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