Robert Carleton Hobbs is an American art historian and

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specializing in twentieth-century art. Since 1991 he has held the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art in the School of Arts,

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, a highly ranked art department. Since 2004 he has served as a visiting professor at

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. He has held positions at

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, Florida State University, and Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in

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, and is known for a number of books, in-depth essays, and exhibitions.

Early life

Born in 1946, Hobbs is the son of scientist Charles S. Hobbs, who is best known for conducting the primary research on fluorine and teeth as well as investigating, over a thirty-year period, the residual genetic effects of the nuclear fallout on beef cattle found within a 150-mile radius of Los Alamos. His mother, Corinne Clay, was a coloratura soprano with a repertoire in five languages. While living in his family's scenic retreat where the

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(T.V.A.) had been planned, Robert Hobbs enrolled in the early 1960s in Maryville High School, which in the post- Sputnik era had a greater percentage of students attending M.I.T. than any other high school in the nation. During this time he was employed summers, running routine experiments in a chemical lab and acting in local college theatrical productions. In 1969 Hobbs received his B.A. at the

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(Knoxville), working with Dale Cleaver, who was a student of Joshua Taylor, who in turn had studied with

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. In 1975 he was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the

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. His dissertation director was philosopher, art historian, and poet

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, who had been a student of the Frankfurt School director

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. Combining philosophic, social history, and formalist views, Hobbs wrote a dissertation on

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's Elegies to the Spanish Republic while participating in the

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Independent Study Program. The next year, as a lecturer at Yale University, he lived in Motherwell's guesthouse in Greenwich, Connecticut, and turned sections of his dissertation into essays for the catalogue that accompanied this artist's first European retrospective.

Academic career

After accepting the position of assistant professor at

, Hobbs co-curated in 1978 ''Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years'' (with Gail Levin), which was jointly organized by Cornell's

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and the Whitney Museum of American Art. This exhibition provided the first retrospective view of early Abstract Expressionism and helped to redirect studies of the material away from the then predominantly formalist views of New York critic

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. In 1978 Hobbs took a leave of absence from Cornell in order to assume the position of Chief Curator of the

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and direct Farabi University's museum affiliated program. Finding himself in the throes of a full-scale revolution, he was able to leave Tehran in December 1978, the last day before the airport closed. Several years later, as an associate professor at Cornell, he curated the first retrospective of earth artist

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, which was shown at the Whitney in 1981. In addition to being presented in five United States' venues, this exhibition was selected as the U.S. official representation for the 1982

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, and it subsequently traveled to five European museums. An adjunct to this exhibition was Hobbs' Cornell University Press monograph on Smithson's sculpture, which has come to be regarded as a standard reference on this subject. Hobbs became Director of the

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in 1982. For this institution, he co-curated with Gaylord Torrence the first exhibition to look chronologically at a single American Indian tribe's development. Entitled ''Art of the Red Earth People: The Mesquakie of Iowa'', this exhibition and its co-authored catalogue surveyed 200 years of Mesquakie art history. While at the University of Iowa, Hobbs also brokered the gift of the important Stanley Collection of

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, oversaw the publication of this collection by Christopher D. Roy, and co-curated with Fredrick Woodard Human Rights, ''Human Wrongs: Art and Social Change: Essays by the Faculty of the University of Iowa'', which showcased a wide range of disciplinary views of individual works of art that varied from neurologist António Damásio's trenchant insights to Jorie Graham's erudite and complex poetry. In 1988 Hobbs returned to full-time teaching at Florida State University, and in 1991 he accepted the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair at VCU. Since this time he has continued to work as both a scholar and a curator. Among his exhibitions are a retrospective of

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's art, which opened at the

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(LACMA) and traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, and also a retrospective of Mark Lombardi's drawings, which was shown at New York City's Drawing Center and Toronto's AGO. In addition, he curated the extensive group show ''Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South'' and the one-person exhibition

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: Remembering the Road, which were both organized in conjunction with the

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, in conjunction with the 1996 Cultural Olympiad in Atlanta. In 2002 his

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exhibition Slavery! Slavery! became the U.S. official representation at the São Paulo Bienal. He co-curated with Jean Crutchfield in 2011 Tavares Strachan: seen/unseen that took place from September 19 through October 28, 2011, at an undisclosed location in New York City. In 2012–13, Hobbs curated the exhibitions Cellblock I and Cellblock II at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City. Later that year, Hobbs and Crutchfield also co-curated Strachan's exhibition Polar Eclipse which represented the Bahamas at the 55th Venice Biennale. Former students include

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specialist Craig Adcock, Robert Ryman scholar Vittorio Colaizzi, filmmaker and artist Shelly Silver, biographer and New York Times critic Deborah Solomon, and New York abstract painter James Siena.

Publications

Hobbs has continued to write extensively on modern and postmodern art, including investigations of the work of the following artists (listed alphabetically):

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Hernan Bas Hernan Bas (born 1978 in Miami, Florida, United States) is an artist based in Miami, Florida. He graduated in 1996 from the New World School of the Arts in Miami. Bas is known for his depictions of waifs and dandies, who are somewhat based on h ...

Duane Hanson Duane Hanson (January 17, 1925 – January 6, 1996) was an American artist and sculptor born in Minnesota. He spent most of his career in South Florida. He was known for his life-sized realistic sculptures of people. He cast the works based o ...

Keith Haring Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his wor ...

Jonathan Lasker Jonathan Lasker (born 1948) is an American abstract painter whose work has played an integral role in the development of Postmodern Painting. He currently lives and works in New York City. Lasker has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts ...

Mark Lindquist Mark Lindquist (born 1949) is an American sculptor in wood, artist, author, and photographer. Lindquist is a major figure in the redirection and resurgence of woodturning in the United States beginning in the early 1970s. His communication of his ...

, Malcolm Morley,

Beverly Pepper Beverly Pepper (née Stoll; December 20, 1922 – February 5, 2020) was an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remained independent from any particular art movement. She lived in Italy, primarily in ...

Richard Pousette-Dart Richard Warren Pousette-Dart (June 8, 1916 – October 25, 1992) was an American abstract expressionist artist most recognized as a founder of the New York School of painting.Kimmelman, Michae"Richard Pousette-Dart, 76, Dies; An Early Abstract E ...

Neo Rauch Neo Rauch (born 18 April 1960, in Leipzig, East Germany; ) is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes ...

, Andres Serrano,

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, James Siena,

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, Frank Thiel,

Kelley Walker Kelley Walker (born 1969 Columbus, Georgia) is an American post-conceptual artist who lives and works in New York City. He uses advertising and digital media to make "paintings" using screen printing and/or digital printing technologies.http://www. ...

, John Wesley, and

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, among others. His "

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and Installation Art" (2001) for the

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discerns relations between this philosopher's thought and

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's criticism, and it underscores the impact of both on the development of

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in the late 1950s, thus demonstrating how this French philosopher's ideas were important to New York artists over a decade before the advent of Robert Morris's minimalism. His "Affluence, Taste, and the Brokering of Knowledge: Notes on the Social Context of Early Conceptual Art" looks at the social history of collecting and taste as well as the tremendous respect for education in the 1950s and early 1960s that helped to prepare the way for the rapid and relatively widespread acceptance of

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in the 1960s. Hobbs has written in-depth essays for the Rubell Collection (Miami), including a historical overview, titled "Looking B(l)ack: Reflections of White Racism" (for the well-received exhibition ''30 Americans'') that looks at the challenges, goals, and sensibilities facing African-American artists from the 1980s to the present.

Personal life

In 1994 Hobbs married Jean Crutchfield, who had established a reputation for directing cutting-edge galleries in New York, Chicago, and Paris. aving grown up in Geneva, Switzerland where she attended the International School, she is fluent in French.She has worked closely with such artists as Alice Aycock,

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, David Ireland,

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Sherrie Levine Sherrie Levine (born 1947) is an American photographer, painter, and conceptual artist. Some of her work consists of exact photographic reproductions of the work of other photographers such as Walker Evans, Eliot Porter and Edward Weston. Early ...

, Kay Rosen, and

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. Since their marriage, Crutchfield co-curated The Art of Aggression, and she has curated Presumed Innocence, as well as one-person shows of the work of Diana Cooper,

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(first museum showing),

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, and Monique Prieto (first museum showing), in addition to continuing to serve as a fine arts consultant.

Selected bibliography

Selected Books and Catalogues by Hobbs

;2014 *Robert Hobbs, Robert Motherwell: ''Theorizing Abstract Expressionism''. London: 21 Publishing, 2014. *Robert Hobbs, Kelley Walker. New York: PJC, 2014. *Robert Hobbs, Trinie Dalton, Christopher Glazek, David Altmejd. Bologna: Damiani, 2014. *Robert Hobbs and

Franklin Sirmans Franklin Sirmans (born in New York City (Queens)) is an American art critic, editor, writer, curator and has been the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) since October 2015. His initiatives there include ensuring that PAMM's art program ...

, ''Tavares Strachan: Seen/Unseen'': Hong Kong: Art Asia Pacific, 2014. ;2013 *Robert Hobbs, Stamatina Gregory, Christian Viveros-Faune, ''I Belong Here'' (New York: D.A.P., 2013). This publication served as the catalogue for Tavares Strachan: Polar Eclipse, Bahamas Pavilion, 55th La Biennale di Venezia, June–November 2013, curated by Jean Crutchfield and Robert Hobbs. ;2012 *Robert Hobbs. ''Jonathan Lasker: Early Works 1977–1985''. New York: Cheim and Reid, 2012. ;2009 *Robert Hobbs, Matthew Collings, Mel Gooding and Robert Motherwell. Open. London: 21 Publishing Ltd., 2009. *Robert Hobbs, Jorg Heiser, Alessandro Rabottini and Sterling Ruby. Sterling Ruby. Bergamo: Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Bergamo, 2009. ;2008 *Robert Hobbs and Rachel Kent, Yinka Shonibare, MBE. Munich, London, and New York: Prestel, 2008.; revised edition, 2014. ;2005 *Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects. Cambridge and London: M.I.T. Press, 2005. ;2003 *Mark Lombardi: Global Networks. New York:

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in conjunction with D.A.P., 2003. ;2001 *Milton Avery: The Late Paintings. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2001. ;1999 *Lee Krasner. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1999. ;1995 *Beatrice Mandelman: Taos Modernist. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. ;1991 *Lee Krasner. New York: Abbeville Press, 1993. ;1990 *Milton Avery. New York: Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1990. Robert Hobbs and Joanne Kuebler. Richard Pousette-Dart. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. ;1989 *Gaylord Torrence and Robert Hobbs. ''Art of the Red Earth People: The Mesquakie of Iowa''. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1989. ;1987 *Edward Hopper. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, in association with National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1987. ;1982 *Robert Smithson: A Retrospective View. Washington, D.C.: The United States International Communications Agency, 1982. ;1981 *Robert Smithson: Sculpture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981. Robert Hobbs and Gail Levin. ''Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years''. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978. epublished by Cornell University Press, 1981.ref name="cornell.edu"/> ;1976 *''Robert Motherwell Retrospective''. Düsseldorf: Städische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976.

Selected essays and articles by Hobbs

;2014 *"Krasner, Mitchell, and Frankenthaler" in ''Abstract Expressionist Women Painters'', ed. Joan Marter. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Forthcoming. *"Minimal Art" in ''Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971'', ed. Anne Kovach and James Meyer. Cambridge and London: M.I.T. Press, Forthcoming. ;2013 *Hobbs, Robert. "Renaud Regnery's Post-Future/Past-Exotic Viet Cong Series", in ''Renaud Regnery: Viet Cong''. September 14 – October 26, 2013, Klemm's Galerie, Berlin. 2013. ;2009 *"Motherwell's Open: Heidegger, Mallarmé, and Zen". Robert Hobbs, Matthew Collings, Mel Gooding and Robert Motherwell. Open. London: 21 Publishing Ltd., 2009. *"Sterling Ruby's Post-Humanist Art". Robert Hobbs, Jorg Heiser, Alessandro Rabottini and Sterling Ruby. Sterling Ruby. Bergamo: Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Bergamo, 2009. ;2008 *"Form is a Verb: Pousette-Dart and Vorticism". ''Pousette-Dart Drawing: Form is a Verb''. New York: Knoedler & Company, 2008. ;2007 *"Hernan Bas' 'Fag Limbo' and the Tactics of Reframing Societal Texts". Mark Coetzee. ''Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection''. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2007. *"Kelley Walker's Continuum: Consuming and Recycling as Aesthetic Tactics". Suzanne Cotter, ed., Seth Price/Kelley Walker: Continuous Project. Oxford, UK: Modern Art Oxford, 2007. *"Lee Krasner's Skepticism and Her Emergent Postmodernism". ''Woman's Art Journal'' 28, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2007). *"Robert Beck's Dust". Bill Horrigan, Helen Molesworth, and Robert Hobbs, Robert Beck: Dust. Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, 2007. Wexner Center for the Arts ; 2005 *"Malcolm Morley: The Art of Painting". Malcolm Morley. New York: Sperone, Westwater, 2005. *"Robert Motherwell's Elegies to the Spanish Republic", 1976 (revised 2004). Ellen G. Landau, ed., ''Reading Abstract Expressionism'': Context and Critique. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. *"Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism: From Psychic to Plastic Automatism". Isabelle Dervaux, Surrealism USA. New York: National Academy Museum in conjunction with Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2005. *"The Term 'Color Field. ''The Shape of Colour''. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2005. *"Neo Rauch's Purposive Ambiguities" in ''Neo Rauch''. Málaga, Spain: CAC Málaga, 2005. ;2004 *"Affluence, Taste, and the Brokering of Knowledge: Notes on the Social context of Early Conceptual Art". Michael Corris, ed., Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth, and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ;2003 *"Jonathan Lasker's Dramatis Personae". Jonathan Lasker: ''Paintings, Drawings, Studies''. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in co-production with K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2003. *"Pierre Huyghe's Ellipses". ''Parkett'' 66 (Fall 2003). *"Reading Black Through White: Kara Walker and the Question of Racial Stereotyping: A Discussion between Michael Corris and Robert Hobbs". ''Art History'' 26, no. 3 (June 2003); rpt. in Gill Perry, ed., ''Differences and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women's Practices''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. ;2002 *“Frank Stella, Then and Now”. ''Frank Stella: Recent Work''. Singapore: Singapore Tyler Print Institute, 2002. ;2001 *"Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology and Installation Art". Claudia Giannini, ed., ''Installations Mattress Factory 1990–1999''. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. ;2000 *"Frank Stella: Matrixed and Real Space". Frank Stella. Philadelphia: Locks Gallery, 2000. ;1988 *"Sally Michel: The Other Avery". ''Woman's Art Journal'' 8 (Fall 1987 – Winter 1988).

Selected Reviews and News Coverage

*Cumming, Laura. "Venice Biennale: 10 of the best artists - in pictures". ''The Guardian'', June 1, 2013. *Chan, Dawn. "Tavares Strachan". Artforum. May 29, 2013. *Volk, Gregory. "Venice Biennale Journeys: Kjartansson and Strachan". ''Art in America''. June 24, 2013. *Cotter, Holland. "Beyond the 'Palace,' an International Tour in One City". Art Review. ''The New York Times''. June 5, 2013. *55th Venice Biennale, Exclusive Interview: Robert Hobbs/Co-curator of the Bahamian Pavilion, June 7, 2013.

References

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*Christine Filippone (Spring/Summer 2006), "Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects by Robert Hobbs", ''

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'' 27, no. 1: 57–61. *Allan M. Jalon (December 5, 2004), "The Prescience of a Cranky Critic lement Greenberg, ''Los Angeles Times'', E 47. *"The 'Conspiracy' of Art of Mark Lombardi", ''Weekend Edition'', NPR, November 1, 2003: Interview with Robert Hobbs. *Eleanor Heartney (October 26, 2003)
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''The New York Times'' p. AR 31. *Michael Kimmelman (November 14, 2003)

''The New York Times'' p. E36. *Carol Vogel (December 28, 2001)

''The New York Times'' p. E42. *Ted Loos (December 23, 2001)

''The New York Times'', pp. AR 39, 42. *Michael Kimmelman (September 10, 2000)

''The New York Times'', p. AR 91. *Ken Johnson (October 6, 2000)

''The New York Times'' p. E36 *"Lee Krasner Exhibit", ''Morning Edition'', NPR, December 30, 1999. Interview with Robert Hobbs. *Amei Wallach (October 3, 1999)

''The New York Times'', p. 41, 42.] * Martica Sawin (Fall 1997), "Lee Krasner by Robert Hobbs; Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné by Ellen G. Landau; and Elaine de Kooning: The Spirit of Abstract Expressionism, Selected Writings, essay by Rose Slivka", ''Woman's Art Journal'' 18, no. 2: 31–33. *Thomas McEvilley (May 1997), "The Missing Tradition", ''Art in America'' 85, no. 5, 78–85, 137. *W. Jackson Rushing (Summer 1991), "Pousette-Dart's Spirit-Object, Indianapolis Museum of Art (review)", ''Art Journal'' 50: 72–75. *Jean Robertson (May 1991), "Richard Pousette-Dart, Indianapolis Museum", ''Artforum'' 29: 150–151. *John Russell (December 6, 1987), "Robert Carleton Hobbs, Edward Hopper (book review)," ''The New York Times Book Review'', 89. *Calvin Tompkins (March 29, 1982), "The Nature Problem", ''The New Yorker'' 58: 134–138. *F. Spalding (1982), "Robert Hobbs, Robert Smithson Sculpture (book review)", ''Times Literary Supplement'' no. 4141. *Kate Linker (Summer 1982), "Robert Smithson Sculpture", ''Artforum'' 20, no. 10: 80. *Bruce Kurtz (April 1982), "Robert Smithson Sculpture", ''Art in America'' 70, no. 4: 135–136. *"Formative Years, Whitney Museum, New York," ''Kunstwerk'' 32 (February 1979): 37. *Roberta Smith (May 1979), "Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years, Whitney Museum", ''Art in America'' 67: 134. *Hilton Kramer (April 16, 1978), "Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years", ''The New York Times'', II, 26. *Lawrence Alloway (October 28, 1978), "Art Exhibition--Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years", ''The Nation'' 227: 452–453. *G. Dorfman (December, 1978), "Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years", ''Artforum'' 17: 61–63. *Barbara Rose (May 1978), "Durability of Abstract Expressionism: Exhibition at Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University", ''Saturday Review'' 5: 44.

External links

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