"A shift of modality:" : postminimal Montreal sculpture in the 1970s
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the early 1970s, prescribed definitions of traditional ways of making art underwent an intense re-evaluation. This thesis examines the reconsideration of sculpture through analysis of several works of Montreal artists Andrew Dutkewych (b.1944), Jean-Serge Champagne (b.1947), and Claude Mongrain (b.1948). In these works, we see a move towards sculpture that is more conceptual and site-specific. For instance, Dutkewych's architectonic sculptures explore and re-emphasize the relationship between the work and its location in the gallery, while Champagne's sculptures communicate to the viewer previously latent physical phenomena, and Mongrain's 'situations' emphasize their temporal quality. We also see a preference of each artist for using natural, unprocessed materials. This thesis analyzes the work of Dutkewych, Champagne and Mongrain within the modal shift in sculpture that moves away from the production of self-contained art objects towards the use of inexpensive natural materials, the referencing of site and the revelation of process. The study also contextualizes the work within the wider Montreal art milieu through discussing the critical reception it received when shown in pivotal group exhibitions such as Périphéries in 1974 and Québec 75 a year later.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.000 |
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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".