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In praise of vagueness: re-visioning the relationship between theory and practice in the teaching of Fine Art from a cross-cultural perspective

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Pages 87-103 | Received 05 Sep 2016, Accepted 04 Feb 2017, Published online: 23 Feb 2017

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