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Record W4285027094 · doi:10.22215/etd/2022-14963

Julius S. Held and the Development of Art History in Canada

2022· dissertation· en· W4285027094 on OpenAlex
Casandra Brunet

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEuropean Linguistics and Anthropology
Canadian institutionsCarleton UniversityYork University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaBelgian American Educational FoundationCarnegie Corporation of New York
KeywordsÉmigréGermanRefugeeInstitutionWorld War IIFaithHistoryPolitical scienceArt historyClassicsLawArchaeologyTheologyPolitics

Abstract

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The impact of German refugees in art historical circles in the United States before and after World War II is well documented, but their effect on Canada is comparatively unexplored. This thesis investigates the influence of German emigre Julius Samuel Held (1905-2002) through his interactions with the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). Held emigrated in 1934 from Germany to the United States due to his Jewish faith, and became acquainted with the NGC in 1935. Between 1935-1960, the NGC consulted Held on acquisitions and policy, as well as organized lectures for him in various Canadian cities. I examine why a national institution went to such lengths to accommodate Held, and the impact of this collaboration on Canadian art historical pedagogy. This case study provides insight on the influence of German intellectual refugees and the contributions that Held made to the developing field of Canadian art history in the mid-twentieth century.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

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 categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.827
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
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)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.279
Teacher spread0.263 · 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

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Published2022
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