Croquis à fleur de textes : les volumes de poésie de John William Waterhouse ou l’essai au cœur du dispositif texte/image
Bibliographic record
Abstract
L’œuvre de John William Waterhouse est intimement liee au mouvement preraphaelite, notamment dans sa predilection pour les sujets litteraires. Or cet attachement au texte en vint au 20eme siecle, a la fin de la vie du peintre, a caracteriser un art qui n’avait pas su prendre le tournant de la modernite picturale, liberee du sujet et du joug textuel. Les ebauches que nous nous proposons d’etudier frappent pourtant par la dynamique esthetique que le rapport de l’element visuel au texte poetique semble creer. Au tournant du siecle, John William Waterhouse realise en effet une serie de croquis sur deux de ses volumes personnels de poesie, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley et The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Considerer ces ebauches comme partie integrante d’une œuvre texte/image, un « iconotexte » pour le dire comme Michael Nerlich, semble permettre de depasser pour un temps la tension hierarchique souvent sous-jacente dans la pensee de l’ut pictura poesis. Nous voudrions montrer comment c’est la forme particuliere de l’essai qui revele ici la puissance d’une imagination visuelle nee des mots, dans ce volume illustre d’un nouveau genre ou les ebauches de Waterhouse viennent jouer avec et sur les textes poetiques, entre celebration et irreverence. The art of John William Waterhouse is closely linked to the Pre-Raphaelite movement, in particular because of his taste for literary subjects. But in the 20th century, this affinity with the text came to characterize a form of art failing to enter pictorial modernity, freed from subjects and not submitted to the text. However, what strikes the spectator at once in the sketches we mean to study here is the aesthetic dynamics that the very link between visual components and poetical texts seem to create. At the turn of the century, John William Waterhouse draws a series of sketches directly on two of his own books of poetry, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Considering these neglected sketches as part of a word and image whole, an “iconotext”, to use Michael Nerlich’s word, might allow us to overcome the hierarchical tension that often undermines the discourse of ut pictura poesis. This essay would like to show how it is the very specific form of the “essai” – both attempt and sketch – which reveals the power of the visual imagination born from words, as Waterhouse’s drawings play with the text, oscillating between celebration and irreverence in these unconventional illustrated volumes of poetry.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".