The phenomenology of display: Monet's «Water Lilies» of the orangerie and the history of proto-installation art
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Abstract
the Muse de l'Orangerie exhibited a series of eight monumental Water Lilies murals that Claude Monet painted over the final decade of his life and artistic career.Several scholars have argued that these paintings are "precursors of abstraction in modern art," or have critiqued them in relation to Monet's biography.This thesis moves beyond such analyzes by focusing on the unique way the Orangerie's Water Lilies have been exhibited at the Orangerie.The space the Orangerie's Water Lilies employ and their arrangement within that space merit an art historical interpretation tantamount to the analysis of the murals themselves.As the Orangerie's Water Lilies murals remain in situ and envelop the museum's visitors, this thesis argues that the Orangerie's Water Lilies offer visitors an experience based in corporeal stimulation, as the museum's internal architecture is intricately connected with the paintings.Moreover, it argues that Monet's artworks in the Orangerie gallery fit into the larger history of proto-installation art by exploring their relationship to historical examples, such as the painted panoramas popular in Europe throughout the nineteenth century and mid-to-late twentieth-century installation art.By examining the Water Lilies gallery in light of theories of the "phenomenology of display" -ie. the manner in which art and the space it inhabits work in unison to convey meaning through sensorial experience -this thesis links the Orangerie's Nymphas gallery to historical cases and considers it a precursor of installation artworks that continue to immerse visitors to this day.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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