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<onlyinclude>[[Lajos Kassák]], main figure of the Hungarian Avante-Garde movement as a poet, writer, editor, periodical founder, movement coordinator and ideologist. Not very active after World War II but still extremely influential.</onlyinclude>
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|birth_place = Érsekújvár, Austria-Hungary (now Nové Zámky, Slovakia)
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<onlyinclude>[[Lajos Kassák]] (1887–1967) was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, and theoretician of the avant-garde.</onlyinclude>
  
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http://www.artportal.hu/international/english/kassak_lajos<br>
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==Chronology==
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http://www.avantgarde-museum.com/kolekcija/ht/autor.php?lang=en&autor=111<br>
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''Based on the panel at permanent exhibition in the Kassák Museum, Budapest; there compiled from biographical text by Ferenc Csaplár.''
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* 1887: Born in Érsekújvár, Austria-Hungary.
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* 1900: Leaves school for apprenticeship as locksmith.
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* 1904: Moves to Budapest and starts working in factories in Angyalföld and Újpest. Participates in trades union political campaigns and joins Hungarian Social Democratic Party.
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* 1908: First poem published in the weekly ''Újpest''.
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* 1909: Sets out for Western Europe on foot, with no money. Discovers art in the museums. Returns to Budapest in December.
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* 1915: Founds anti-militarist periodical ''[[A Tett]]'' [The Action].
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* 1916: The international issue of ''[[A Tett]]'' appears with contributions from writers and artists from countries at war with the monarchy, and the periodical is banned. Launches a new periodical ''[[MA]]'' [Today].
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* 1919: During Hungarian Soviet Republic enters into dispute with Commissar Bela Kun over avant-garde art and the independence of art from politics. ''[[MA]]'' subsequently prevented from appearing. After the failure of the Soviet Republic spends five months in prison.
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* 1920: After his release, leaves the country for exile in Vienna. Relaunches ''[[MA]]'', formulates the theoretical basis of Hungarian constructivism and develops wide contacts with European avant-garde movements.
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* 1926: Returns to Hungary and starts up new journal, ''[[Dokumentum]]'' [Document] which lasts for one year.
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* 1928: Launches a new, independent, left-wing journal ''[[Munka]]'' [Work] and associated movement.
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* 1928-34: Leader of a socially-aware educational society of students and workers, grouped around ''[[Munka]]''. Writes regularly for the newspapers ''Népszava'' [People's Voice] and ''Szocializmus'' [Socialism], protesting against Stalinist tyranny and extreme right-wing movements.
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* 1939: Exhibits in the Galerie Charpentier, Paris. A new law restricting press freedom closes down ''[[Munka]]''.
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* 1940-45: Publishes several novels, books of reports and books of verse. In 1940, an anti-war poem causes him to be imprisoned for two months under a 1937 court judgement.
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* 1945: After the war takes on several positions in cultural affairs in the new political climate. Edits the relaunched ''Új Idők'' [New Times] and then the ''Alkotás'' [Art] and ''Kortárs'' [The Contemporary].
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* 1948: His journals are closed down, he is excluded from public affairs, and his poems and articles cannot be published.
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* 1956: Stands up for the Revolution, returns to artistic affairs.
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* 1957: Public involvement limited, but his old writing begins to be republished.
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* 1960: Exhibition of his work in the Galerie Denise René in Paris, resumption of his international career. Still ignored as an artist in Hungary.
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* 1965: Awarded Kossuth Prize for his poetry.
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* 1967: Holds the last exhibition in his life in the Adolf Fényes Room in Budapest, at his own expense.
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==Works==
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<gallery>
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File:Lajos_Kassak_ET_1921.jpg|''ET'', 1921. Gouache, paper.
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File:Lajos_Kassak_Volkstuemliche_Motive_ca_1921.jpg|''Volkstümliche Motive'', c1921. Gouache on paper.
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File:Lajos_Kassak_Laszlo_Moholy-Nagy_Buch_Neuer_Kuenstler_1922.jpg|Cover of ''Buch Neuer Künstler'', Vienna, 1922.
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File:Kassak_Lajos_1922_Picture Architecture.jpg|''Képarchitektúra'' [Picture Architecture], 1922. Gouache on paper. 26 x 20 cm. [http://www.kieselbach.hu/alkotas/keparchitektura_-1922_11915]
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File:Kassak_Lajos_Bildarchitektur.jpg|''Bildarchitektur''. Silkscreen on thin cardboard.
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Kassak_Lajos_1922_Bildarchitektur_II.jpg|''Bildarchitektur II (Entwurf eines Kiosks)'', 1922. Gouache, cardboard.
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File:Lajos_Kassak_Bildarchitektur Kiosk 1923.jpg|''Bildarchitektur'' [Kiosk], 1923. Gouache, ink, paper.
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File:Lajos_Kassak_Titelblatt_der_Zeitschrift_MA_1924.jpg|''MA'' journal, cover, 1924.
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File:Lajos_Kassak_To_Kino_1928.jpg|''Tó Mozi'' [Tó Kino], 1928.
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File:Lajos_Kassak_Buehnenbild Munka.jpg|''Bühnenbild Munka''.
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</gallery>
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==Portraits==
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Lajos_Kassak_in_Budapest_1927-28.jpg|in Budapest, c1927-28.
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Lajos_Kassak_1930.jpg|Photo by Lajos Lengyel, 1930.
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Lajos_Kassak_in_Budapest_1964.jpg|in Budapest, 1964.
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</gallery>
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==Publications==
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; Magazines
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* editor, ''[[A Tett]]'', 17 numbers, 1915-16.
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* editor, ''[[MA]]'', 76 numbers, Budapest (1916-19) and Vienna (1919-25), 1916-25.
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* editor, ''[[Akasztott Ember]]'', 5 numbers, Vienna, 1922-23.
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* editor, ''[[Dokumentum]]'', 5 numbers, Budapest, 1926-27.
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* editor, ''[[Munka]]'', 65 numbers, Budapest, 1928-39.
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; Books
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* ''[http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/dada/id/30979/rec/106 Novellaskonyv: Válogatott novellák 1911-1919]'', Vienna: Bán-Verlag, 1921, 123 pp. {{hu}}
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* editor, with Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, ''Buch neuer Künstler'', Vienna and Budapest: Aktivista Foliorat, 1922.  An anthology of modern art and poetry. [http://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/de/catalogue-art/buch-neuer-kunstler] {{de}}
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** ''Új művészek könyve'', Bécs, 1922; repr., Budapest: Európa-Corvina, 1977, 104 pp. [http://labor.c3.hu/1977/01/uj-muveszek-konyve/] {{hu}}
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* ''[http://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/ORSZ_PIMU_KasMuz_52/ MA Buch. Gedichte]'', trans. & intro. Andreas Gáspár, Berlin: Der Sturm, 1923; facs., Budapest: Kassák Múzeum, 1999. {{de}}
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* ''Kôň zomrie, vtáky sa rozletia'', trans. Vojtěch Kondrót, Bratislava: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1971. Poems. {{sk}}
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* [http://www.avantgarde-museum.com/en/museum/collection/4445-KASSAK-LAJOS/#works more]
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==Catalogues==
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* ''[http://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/ORSZ_PIMU_KasMuz_29/ Kassák]'', eds. Ferenc Csaplár, Mariann Gergely, Péter György, and Gábor Pataki, Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Galéria & Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, 1987. {{hu}}
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* Szász János, Kovács Tamás, ''[http://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/ORSZ_PIMU_KasMuz_vegyes/ Lappangó elem]'', Budapest: Kassák Museum, 1991. {{hu}}
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* ''[http://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/ORSZ_PIMU_KasMuz_37/ Kassák Lajos: Érsekújvár]'', ed. Ferenc Csaplár, Budapest: Kassák Múzeum, 1992. {{hu}}
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* ''[http://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/ORSZ_PIMU_KasMuz_60/ Kassák Lajos: Reklám és modern tipográfia]'', ed. Ferenc Csaplár, Budapest: Kassák Múzeum, 1999. {{hu}}
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** ''[http://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/ORSZ_PIMU_KasMuz_61/ Lajos Kassák: Reklame und moderne Typografie]'', ed. Ferenc Csaplár, Budapest: Kassák Museum, 1999. {{de}}
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** ''[http://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/ORSZ_PIMU_KasMuz_65/ Lajos Kassák: The Advertisement and Modern Typography]'', ed. Csaplár Ferenc, Budapest: Kassák Múzeum, 1999. {{en}}
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* ''Lajos Kassák. Botschafter der Avantgarde 1915-1927'', Budapest: Literaturmuseum Petőfi & Kassák Museum, 2011, 101 pp. [http://www.berlinischegalerie.de/en/exhibitions/archives/2011/lajos-kassak/] {{de}}
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==Literature==
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* Endre Gáspár, ''Kassák Lajos - az ember és munkája'', Bécs, 1924. {{hu}}
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* Tomáš Štrauss, ''Kassák. Ein ungarischer Beitrag zum Konstruktivizmus'', Cologne, 1975. {{de}}
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* Emőke G. Komoróczy, ''[http://mek.oszk.hu/01300/01372/01372.pdf Kassák és a magyar avantgárd mozgalom]'', 1995, 137 pp. {{hu}}
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* Marian Mazzone, [http://epa.oszk.hu/00000/00010/00038/pdf/HSR_2004_1-2_015-046.pdf "Dadaist Text / Constructivist Image: Kassák's ''Képarchitektúra''"], ''Hungarian Studies Review'' 31:1-2 (2004). {{en}}
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* Zoltán Péter, ''Lajos Kassák, Wien und der Konstruktivismus 1920-1926'', Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010, 316 pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=p2gNS61SrhwC&printsec=frontcover]. Review: [http://www.kakanien-revisited.at/rez/PDereky1.pdf Deréky] (Kakanien 2010). {{de}}
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* ''[http://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/ORSZ_PIMU_KasMuz_01/ ...fejünkből töröljük ki a regulákat" Kassák Lajos az író, képzőművész, szerkesztő és közszereplő]'', ed. Andrási Gábor, Budapest: Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum & Kassák Alapítvány, 2010. {{hu}}
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==See also==
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* [[Hungary#Avant_garde]]
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* [[Central_and_Eastern_Europe#Constructivists.2C_Futurists|Central and Eastern Europe#Constructivists, Futurists]]
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==Links==
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* [http://www.kassakmuzeum.hu The Kassák Museum and the Kassák Foundation], Budapest.
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* [http://www.kassakmuzeum.hu/en/index.php?p=lajos_kassak Biography on the website of the Kassák Museum].
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* http://musessquare.blogspot.com/2011/03/kassak-lajos.html
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* http://www.hunlit.hu/kassaklajos,en
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* http://www.artpool.hu/Kassak/Kassak_quotationshu.html
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* http://www.artpool.hu/Poetry/soundimage/Kassak.html
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* http://www.artnet.com/artists/lajos-kassák/past-auction-results
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[[Category:Constructivism]]  {{DEFAULTSORT:Kassak, Lajos}}

Revision as of 15:24, 25 September 2017


Kassák in Vienna, c1922.
Born March 21, 1887(1887-03-21)
Érsekújvár, Austria-Hungary (now Nové Zámky, Slovakia)
Died July 22, 1967(1967-07-22) (aged 80)
Budapest, Hungary
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Lajos Kassák (1887–1967) was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, and theoretician of the avant-garde.

Chronology

Based on the panel at permanent exhibition in the Kassák Museum, Budapest; there compiled from biographical text by Ferenc Csaplár.

  • 1887: Born in Érsekújvár, Austria-Hungary.
  • 1900: Leaves school for apprenticeship as locksmith.
  • 1904: Moves to Budapest and starts working in factories in Angyalföld and Újpest. Participates in trades union political campaigns and joins Hungarian Social Democratic Party.
  • 1908: First poem published in the weekly Újpest.
  • 1909: Sets out for Western Europe on foot, with no money. Discovers art in the museums. Returns to Budapest in December.
  • 1915: Founds anti-militarist periodical A Tett [The Action].
  • 1916: The international issue of A Tett appears with contributions from writers and artists from countries at war with the monarchy, and the periodical is banned. Launches a new periodical MA [Today].
  • 1919: During Hungarian Soviet Republic enters into dispute with Commissar Bela Kun over avant-garde art and the independence of art from politics. MA subsequently prevented from appearing. After the failure of the Soviet Republic spends five months in prison.
  • 1920: After his release, leaves the country for exile in Vienna. Relaunches MA, formulates the theoretical basis of Hungarian constructivism and develops wide contacts with European avant-garde movements.
  • 1926: Returns to Hungary and starts up new journal, Dokumentum [Document] which lasts for one year.
  • 1928: Launches a new, independent, left-wing journal Munka [Work] and associated movement.
  • 1928-34: Leader of a socially-aware educational society of students and workers, grouped around Munka. Writes regularly for the newspapers Népszava [People's Voice] and Szocializmus [Socialism], protesting against Stalinist tyranny and extreme right-wing movements.
  • 1939: Exhibits in the Galerie Charpentier, Paris. A new law restricting press freedom closes down Munka.
  • 1940-45: Publishes several novels, books of reports and books of verse. In 1940, an anti-war poem causes him to be imprisoned for two months under a 1937 court judgement.
  • 1945: After the war takes on several positions in cultural affairs in the new political climate. Edits the relaunched Új Idők [New Times] and then the Alkotás [Art] and Kortárs [The Contemporary].
  • 1948: His journals are closed down, he is excluded from public affairs, and his poems and articles cannot be published.
  • 1956: Stands up for the Revolution, returns to artistic affairs.
  • 1957: Public involvement limited, but his old writing begins to be republished.
  • 1960: Exhibition of his work in the Galerie Denise René in Paris, resumption of his international career. Still ignored as an artist in Hungary.
  • 1965: Awarded Kossuth Prize for his poetry.
  • 1967: Holds the last exhibition in his life in the Adolf Fényes Room in Budapest, at his own expense.

Works

  • ET, 1921. Gouache, paper.

  • Volkstümliche Motive, c1921. Gouache on paper.

  • Cover of Buch Neuer Künstler, Vienna, 1922.

  • Képarchitektúra [Picture Architecture], 1922. Gouache on paper. 26 x 20 cm. [1]

  • Bildarchitektur. Silkscreen on thin cardboard.

  • Bildarchitektur II (Entwurf eines Kiosks), 1922. Gouache, cardboard.

  • Bildarchitektur [Kiosk], 1923. Gouache, ink, paper.

  • MA journal, cover, 1924.

  • Tó Mozi [Tó Kino], 1928.

  • Bühnenbild Munka.

Portraits

  • in Budapest, c1927-28.

  • Photo by Lajos Lengyel, 1930.

  • in Budapest, 1964.

Publications

Magazines
  • editor, A Tett, 17 numbers, 1915-16.
  • editor, MA, 76 numbers, Budapest (1916-19) and Vienna (1919-25), 1916-25.
  • editor, Akasztott Ember, 5 numbers, Vienna, 1922-23.
  • editor, Dokumentum, 5 numbers, Budapest, 1926-27.
  • editor, Munka, 65 numbers, Budapest, 1928-39.
Books
  • Novellaskonyv: Válogatott novellák 1911-1919, Vienna: Bán-Verlag, 1921, 123 pp. (Hungarian)
  • editor, with Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, Buch neuer Künstler, Vienna and Budapest: Aktivista Foliorat, 1922. An anthology of modern art and poetry. [2] (German)
    • Új művészek könyve, Bécs, 1922; repr., Budapest: Európa-Corvina, 1977, 104 pp. [3] (Hungarian)
  • MA Buch. Gedichte, trans. & intro. Andreas Gáspár, Berlin: Der Sturm, 1923; facs., Budapest: Kassák Múzeum, 1999. (German)
  • Kôň zomrie, vtáky sa rozletia, trans. Vojtěch Kondrót, Bratislava: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1971. Poems. (Slovak)
  • more

Catalogues

Literature

See also

Links

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