MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W3125564419 · doi:10.7202/1072981ar

MoMA’s Public Relations, Alfred Barr’s Public, and Matisse’s American Canonization

2020· article· fr· W3125564419 on OpenAlexaffvenue
John O’Brian

Bibliographic record

VenueRACAR Revue d art canadienne · 2020
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicArt, Politics, and Modernism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesArtArt history

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Depuis 1931, l’année où le MoMA mettait sur pied sa première exposition de Matisse, jusqu’en 1951, l’époque qui vit Alfred Barr publier son imposante monographie ( Matisse: His Art and His Public ) et organiser une autre importante rétrospective de l’artiste, le musée new yorkais s’engageait dans un processus d’institutionnalisation qui allait modifier—d’aucuns diraient « momifier »—sa vocation initiale. D’une simple galerie vouée à la présentation d’expositions temporaires, il allait en effet devenir le dépositaire que l’on sait d’une célèbre collection d’art moderne. Alfred Barr est le personnage-clé de cette transformation et l’instigateur du canon moderniste qui trouve encore des échos dans les pratiques actuelles du musée. Sa détermination à rassembler un large public pour le MoMA le porta à des initiatives en apparence contradictoires, où des opérations de battage médiatique et des stratégies renouvelées d’accrochage devaient se combiner à la rigueur du scholarship pour imposer une certaine idée du développement de l’art de ce siècle. La figure emblématique de Matisse paraît avoir joué un rôle de premier plan dans ces stratégies, le Matisse d’avant 1920 qu’une certaine austérité formelle préservait encore d’un hédonisme trop affiché. La dernière rétrospective de l’artiste, organisée par le MoMA en 1992, s’inscrit dans le prolongement du canon matisséen et moderniste élaboré par Barr au lieu d’en produire l’analyse critique.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.896
Threshold uncertainty score0.207

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0150.015
Scholarly communication0.0090.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.001

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 head0.042
GPT teacher head0.212
Teacher spread0.170 · 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
GenreEmpirical

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".

Quick stats

Citations2
Published2020
Admission routes2
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueRACAR Revue d art canadienneSame topicArt, Politics, and ModernismFrench-language works237,207