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Henri Matisse produced three famous “decorative landscapes” in Tangier in 1912. New documents throw fresh light on the physical and cultural milieu in which they were made. Unpublished photographs ...

General619South Asia636Middle East627South East Asia648Central Asia634East Asia652What makes this survey distinctive is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Khanna draws on numerous...

The assessment of student learning outcomes in the tertiary school sector has seen an increase in global popularity in recent years. Measurement instruments that target higher order skills are on the rise, whereas assessments that foster the recall of factual knowledge are declining. The Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) project was designed with the goal of developing a cross-national concept for valid assessment of generic and domain-specific student learning outcomes on an international comparative basis. AHELO and other international comparative assessment systems face numerous methodological challenges that pertain to test design and development, translation, adaptation, student sampling, scoring, reporting, and the validity of score interpretations. The goal of this paper is to generate ideas for the improvement of cross-national research agendas, such as the AHELO project. The main purpose is to focus on the lessons learned from the AHELO feasibility study and other internati...

The visit of the young Tom Roberts to the Alhambra Palace in Granada has long been considered a foundational moment for the future ‘father of Australian landscape painting’. Exposure to the bright ...

There are few places more remote from Melbourne than Tangiers. Yet when the young Australian painter Hilda Rix visited there in search of fresh subjects in 1912, she encountered the familiar sight ...

In ShortCritical-thinking skills are applicable over an array of academic disciplines and can be both improved by teaching and assessed.Standardized tests of such skills have the advantage of being...

When is a painted copy no longer a copy? When it deviates so far from the original that the copy achieves its own separate identity as an interpretation. That is the condition proposed by the best-known painting in the oeuvre of the prolific Australian painter Tim Johnson. His Illusory City (1983-5) was based on a source so obscure that few would have grasped they were dealing with a work of citation. In this, it was unlike much 1980s Australian appropriation art, which played upon the possibility that viewers would recognise and relish a series of witty or trenchant visual citations. Instead, in the sincerity of his homage to other cultures - Chinese and Aboriginal - and the completeness of his pictorial transformation of their ways of making images, Johnson's practice smacks as much of the high modern japonaiserie of Vincent van Gogh or the cubist copying of old masters by Juan Gris as it does the homeless postmodern borrowings of David Salle or Imants Tillers.