The Erotics of Reading in the Art of Henry Fuseli
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Abstract
In the years around 1790, when literary picture schemes came to dominate London's marketplace of commercial galleries, Swiss-born painter Henry Fuseli worked on multiple commissions for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and began to contemplate the gestation of his own print-based Milton Gallery.During this period, he was developing theoretical notions about the analogous power of art and literature to "whirl us along as readers and spectators," linking all aesthetic productions-literary or plastic-by their mutual operation on the imagination of a beholder.The mind was its own medium, he argued, equally amenable to a linguistics of paint or a visual formalism of language.These were not merely erudite disquisitions, but, Fuseli mistakenly believed, fertile ground for commercial exploitation.Drawing on Fuseli's extensive critical writings, his correspondence, and a repetitive series of metaliterary compositions, this thesis reconstructs the contours of an ambitious art built around the conception of a "reader/viewer"-a calculus that would amount to a massive misreading of the London market and the commercial viability of his gallery scheme.Aux alentours de 1790, alors que les projets de tableaux littéraires commençaient à dominer le marché Londonien des galeries commerciales, le peintre d'origine suisse Henry Fuseli travaillait sur des commandes pour la Shakespeare Gallery de John Boydell et commençait à envisager la gestation de sa propre Milton Gallery.À cette époque, il développe des notions théoriques sur le pouvoir analogue de l'art et de la littérature à "nous faire tourbillonner en tant que lecteurs et spectateurs", reliant toutes les productions esthétiques -littéraires ou plastiques -par leur opération mutuelle sur l'imagination de celui qui regarde.Selon lui, l'esprit est son propre médium, qui se prête aussi bien à une linguistique de la peinture qu'à un formalisme visuel du langage.Il ne s'agissait pas seulement de disquisitions érudites, mais, croyait Fuseli à tort, d'un terrain fertile pour l'exploitation commerciale.En s'appuyant sur les nombreux écrits critiques de Fuseli, sur sa correspondance et sur une série répétitive de compositions métalittéraires, cette thèse reconstruit les contours d'un art ambitieux construit autour de la conception d'un "lecteur/spectateur" -un calcul qui équivaudrait à une mauvaise interprétation du marché Londonien et de la viabilité commerciale de son projet de galerie.2 Martin Myrone has theorized how, through a particular sense of temporality he terms "gothic spectacle," Fuseli's paintings participated in the late-eighteenth century's phantasmagoria of sensationalist novels and popular entertainment technologies.This thesis seeks to build on those these insights.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.034 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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.
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".