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Record W24965708 · doi:10.1057/9780230294868_7

Size Matters: The Oppositional Self-Portraiture of Emily Carr

2010· book-chapter· en· W24965708 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Anne Collett

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2010
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCarrTotemFeelingWildernessArtDramaStyle (visual arts)BoldnessIndigenousArt historyHistoryVisual artsPersonalityPsychologyArchaeologyPsychoanalysis

Abstract

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Everything about Canadian artist Emily Carr was big. She painted huge canvases with great sweeps of movement and colour. Her subjects were the giant cedar and dense pine forests of west-coast Canada, wide expanses of sky and sea, and the exaggerated face and figure of First Nations ‘totem poles’. 1 Carr’s work was energized by an emotional personality, a forceful creative drive and an intense spiritual yearning. Even the darkest forest depths radiated light and energy. Her prose exalted in the drama of life — its joys and anguish; her language tended towards excess. Carr’s writing did not have the smooth polish of a sophisticated stylist; rather it was crafted to emulate and to evoke the ‘truth’ of life as she knew it in the rawness of being and feeling. Carr herself was round-faced, short but broad — a woman with bodily presence and an idiosyncratic style of dress that prioritized comfort (pragmatic and loose) over fashion (decorative and restrictive). She lived her life in the company of a monkey, a rat, various dogs and birds. She travelled alone into the wilderness and indigenous settlements of British Columbia and Alaska in the last decade of the nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth centuries, undaunted by her own fears or the expectations and reactions of others. For brief periods she had an old grey caravan, dubbed ‘the elephant’, towed into the depths of the forest that she might better capture the mystery of its green life-force on canvas. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.279
Threshold uncertainty score0.561

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0190.014
Scholarly communication0.0070.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.209 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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