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An introduction is presented in which the authors discuss various reports within the special section of the issue on topics including the contemporary craft and Asia, ironsmith Jaidev Baghel, and the conversation with artist Heri Dono.

This essay identifies aspects of Eduardo Paolozzi's art and life that warrant study from a transnational perspective. As an example, it considers how Paolozzi's collage-book, Psychological Atlas, 1949, uses a catalogue for the exhibition ‘Kunstschaffen in Deutschland’ to intensify its exploration of mobility, how people and objects belong to a place and a nation, the reclamation of cultural patrimony and the revitalization of nation-based, contemporary culture. Within the context of the social and cultural climate of the post-war period in England and Europe, the themes held significance for developments in nation-art relationships and some aspects of Paolozzi's life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the art of twentieth century being treated geographically. Current events involving geography values academic interest in their convergence with art and culture. According to Thomas DaCosta Kaufman, he approaches art in the context of human geography with emphasis on origins, religions, political systems, resource use, diffusions, spatial variation of landscapes and environmental perception.

This essay reconstitutes the sense artists and intellectuals made of vanguard painting in relation to a consumer culture they observed burgeoning in the United States during the 1950s. In analyzing how painterly abstract painting approximated its forms and practices, they surmised consumer culture was becoming hegemonic and tending to frustrate redress thereof. However, the essay identifies an alternative to the inevitable course of culture commentators espied and disparaged. In his early sculpture Claes Oldenburg wittily engaged to revalorize the very painterliness affording commodification in the first place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using growth modeling, this study examined trajectories of 'switching on' (aspirations) and 'switching off' (disengagement) in mathematics across middle school and high school. In addition, guided by principles under expectancy-value theory, the study sought to determine the extent to which patterns of growth differed by motivation (self-efficacy and valuing) and socio-educational attributes (gender, language background, and achievement). The sample comprised 194 students from four schools who participated in three rounds of data collection across five academic years of their schooling, spanning middle school and high school. In the main, mathematics aspirations declined over time while mathematics disengagement increased. However, initial levels of aspirations and disengagement and their rates of change over time were impacted by motivational and socio-educational factors. Salient findings and their implications for educational assessment and practice are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]