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Phallic Victories? Niki de Saint‐Phalle's <i>Tirs</i>

2003· article· en· W2026144694 on OpenAlex
Jill Carrick

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Bibliographic record

VenueArt History · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicArt, Politics, and Modernism
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhallic stageSAINTFetishismArtMasculinityPaintingSculptureFemininityAndrogynyAestheticsArt historyLiteratureSociologyPsychoanalysisGender studiesPsychologyAnthropology

Abstract

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Between approximately 1961 and 1964, Nouveau Réaliste artist Niki de Saint‐Phalle gained notoriety through the performance of her Tirs or ‘Shooting Pieces’. While the Tirs have been interpreted as a playful parody of abstract painting, to date, broader gender issues associated with their performance have largely escaped critical notice. In this paper, I argue that Saint‐Phalle employed innovative critical strategies associated with feminism, fetishism and masquerade to critique gender inequalities and social violence. Using the cultural representations of masculinity and femininity available to her, she simultaneously staged herself as ‘virile’ artist, phallic woman, and ‘feminine’ object of the male gaze. At the same time, I suggest, the Tirs prefigured a thematics of fetishistic substitution and loss that would be spectacularly repeated in Jean Tinguely's exploding phallic sculpture La Vittoria ten years later.

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Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.546
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.215
Teacher spread0.173 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it