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Record W7162999209 · doi:10.6082/06k23-e6x14

The Doe-Eyed Girl: The Face of Post-Stalinist Georgian Modernism

2019· article· en· W7162999209 on OpenAlex
Paul Manning

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Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Chicago · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSoviet and Russian History
Canadian institutionsTrent University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeorgianFace (sociological concept)IconographyModernism (music)SecularizationGirlPiety

Abstract

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In 1968 a Polish journalist, describing her visit to Tbilisi, wrote of a certain face in the crowd she seemed to encounter at every step. It was the face of a girl, a "Doe-eyed girl" whom she first encountered in the lobby of Hotel "Tbilisi": "She appeared in profile, her head was turned downwards, lost in thought….I lost count of my meetings with this girl… At almost every step I run into her face to face." This face in the crowd was, in fact, an endlessly reproduced embossed metal fresco (Russian and Georgian chekanka, Georgian ch'eduri) of an ethnographically typical Khevsur Georgian girl of the mountains, who becomes the stereotypical "face" of Georgian post-Stalinist "traditional-modernist" art, especially a secularized revival of metallic frescos traditionally associated with sacred icons. This "[traditional] face in the [modern] crowd", its insistent iconographic secularization and inversion of the religious icon, and recurrent distribution across modernist urban spaces, formed a local Georgian version of what Krisztina Fehérváry has elsewhere called, with respect to Hungary, "socialist modernism", a local Georgian version of a series of post-Stalinist modernist forms across socialist space that became, in each context, the local "brand of socialism". At the same time as the chekanka, as a form, represents a specifically socialist achievement of post-Stalinist modernist aesthetics, its iconography makes the chekanka a secular socialist version of the sacred icon, in which the 2-dimensional space of the chekanka depicts an unattainable, mythic secular "elsewhere" of the nation in contrast with socialist modernity. The face of the Khevsur girl reveals the ambiguities of the daydreams of the Georgian urban intelligentsia, a city filled with modernist buildings decorated with mythic images of the national past. The stereotyped face [Russian tipazh, Georgian t'ip'azhi] of the Khevsur girl, facing away, looking down at a flower, replaces both the religious image of the saint on the icon and the socialist tipazh of the worker or peasant in the propaganada poster. The world of the chekanka embodies a new kind of secular mythology of the nation, which flattens out and decouples characters from genres of myth, legend, folklore, history and fantasy. It produces a kind of timeless daydream "elsewhere" of the national essence opposed to the workaday world of socialism which now had two complementary or competing teleologies, the timeless world of the nation and the coming world of communism.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.863
Threshold uncertainty score0.525

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 studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.209 · 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